Great Throughts Treasury

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

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

The golden age never leaves the world; it exists still, and shall exist, till love, health, and poetry, are no more - but only for the young.

Age | Health | Love | Poetry | Wisdom | World |

Gotthard Booth

Love means that the adults be genuinely concerned with the evolution of the true nature of the child. Children are not able to respond to a love which tries to fashion them according to the concept of the adult, no matter how good the latter's intention may be.

Children | Evolution | Good | Intention | Love | Means | Nature | Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body, and the over work of the brain. In this railway age the wear and tear of labor and intellect go on without pause or self-pity. We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more, from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles; we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.

Age | Body | Labor | Neglect | Pity | Self | Strength | Wisdom | Work | Intellect |

Phillips Brooks

While men believe in the possibilities of children being religious, they are largely failing to make them so, because they are offering them not a child's but a man's religion - men's forms of truth and men's forms of experience.

Children | Experience | Man | Men | Religion | Truth | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

Children | Pain | Wisdom | Learn |

Christian Nestell Bovee

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Age | Enjoyment | Life | Life | Old age | Wisdom | Youth | Old |

John Christian Bovee

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Action | Age | Events | Nature | Thought | Wisdom | Thought |

George Hull Bowers

The kindness of some is too much like the echo, returning the counterpart of what it receives, not more, and sometimes less.

Kindness | Wisdom |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Children | Talking | Wisdom |

Nicholas-Edme Rétif or Restif, aka Rétif de la Bretonne

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.

Age | Heart | Wisdom | Youth | Youth |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Age | History | Knowing | Men | Past | Present | Wisdom |

Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Age | Death | Heart | Soul | Wisdom |

Charles H. Burr

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. You simply give to others a bit of yourself - a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation., a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Appreciation | Heart | Kindness | Mind | Sense | Understanding | Wisdom |

Chinese Family Planning Center Pamphlet NULL

Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.

Age | Love | Marriage | Motives | Wisdom |

Marcelene Cox

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Children | Glory | Parents | Wisdom |

Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Age | Old age | Wisdom |