Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Francis Alexander "F.A." Durivage, wrote under pen name "Old Un"
American Poet, Biographer, Attorney, Composer and Author
"Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, a humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary that of the true, immortal."
"The highest art is artlessness."
"They teach us to remember; why not teach us to forget? There is not a man living who has not, some time in his life, admitted that memory was as much of a curse as a blessing."