Great Throughts Treasury

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

James Stephens

Irish Writer and Poet

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. "

"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself."

"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. "

"It is by love alone that we understand anything."

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. "

"What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. "

"Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory."

"There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil,are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities."

"Men come of age at sixty,women at fifteen."