Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Simeon Strunsky
Russian-born American Essayist and Editor of New International Encyclopedia, Editorial Writer on the New York Evening Post
"Statistics are the heart of democracy."
"The people whom the sons and daughters find it hard to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers."
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
"New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States."
"Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door."
"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."
"The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would"