Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
William D. Hoard, fully William Dempster Hoard
American Governor of Wisconsin, considered father of the Wisconsin Dairy Industry, founded first National Dairy Magazine "Hoard's Dairyman"
"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little or miserable with much."
"Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and in taking a point of view that enables us to see the principles, ideas and things in right relation to each other."
"The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can’t."