Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Edward Payson
American Divine
"Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the life-blood out of our veins."
"I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself."
"Since I began to ask God's blessing on my studies, I have done more in one week than I have done in a whole year before."