Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Robert Mallett
French Writer, Novelist, Playwright and Poet, Winner of The Prix mondial Cino Del Duca International Literary Award, Man of Radio
"It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize."
"He who can listen pleas'd to such applause, Buys at a dearer rate than I dare purchase, And pays for idle air with sense and virtue."
"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?"
"Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety over not to be thought poor."