Great Throughts Treasury

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

Izaak Walton

English Author

"Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content."

"No man can lose what he never had."

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue."

"God has two dwellings: one in Heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart."

"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."