Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Spanish Nun, Scholar and Poet
"As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance."
"In my opinion, better far it be to destroy vanity within my life than to destroy my life in vanity."
"Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel."
"The greater evil who is in- when both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain or he who pays for the sin?"