Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Beverley Nichols, fully John Beverley Nichols

English Author, Playwright, Journalist, Composer and Public Speaker

"Silence is more eloquent than speech."

"Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk is a miracle. Somewhere, always, a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk. The incense that rises with the sun, and the scents that die in the dark, are all gathered, sooner or later, into the solitary fragrance that is God. Faintly, elusively that fragrance lingers over all of us."

"Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."