Great Throughts Treasury

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

Charles Churchill

English Poet and Satirist

"Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful."

"If you mean to profit, learn to please."

"Patience is sorrow's salve."

"No sky is heavy if the heart be light."

"That evil is half-cured whose cause we know."

"The surest road to health, say what they will, is never to suppose that we shall be ill. Most of those evils we poor mortals know from doctors and imagination flow."