Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Brander Matthews, fully James Brander Matthews
American Writer and Educator, first U.S. Professor of Dramatic Literature
"The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence."
"A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. "
"Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt."
"Every generation has the privilege of standing on the shoulders of the generation that went before; but it has no right to pick the pockets of the first-comer. "