Great Throughts Treasury

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

R. E. C. Browne, fully Robert Eric Charles Browne

Irish Church of England Clergyman and Religious Writer

"Medieval churchmen… held that faith, hope and love are the fundamental Christian virtues and that the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude) are needed to express faith, hope and love in all the varying circumstances of life in the world."

"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living. "

"The cynic never grows up, but commits intellectual suicide. "

"The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that. "