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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Red Cloud, fully Maȟpíya Lúta in Lakota NULL

Look at me - I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Character | Children | Good | Love | Peace | Riches | Right | World | Riches |

John Augustus Shedd

Simply having children does not make mothers.

Character | Children |

Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Character | Children | Conversation |

Lydia Sigourney, fully Lydia Huntley Sigourney, née Lydia Howard Huntley

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

Character | Children | Wisdom |

Horace Smith

Every man, like narcissus, becomes enamored of the reflection of himself, only choosing a substance instead of a shadow. This love for any particular woman is self-love at second hand, vanity reflected, compound egotism.

Character | Love | Man | Reflection | Self | Self-love | Woman |

George Matthew Adams

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

Applause | Care | Famous | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Richard Whately

The happiest lot for a an as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

Birth | Character | Little | Think |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

The soul is of itself, all verges to it, all has reference to what ensures, all that a person does, says, thinks, is of consequence, not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part of the direct lifetime, or the hour of death, but the same affects him or her onward afterward through the indirect lifetime. The indirect is just as much as the direct, the spirit receives from the body just as much as it gives to the body, if not more.

Body | Character | Day | Death | Man | Soul | Spirit | Woman |

Marguerite De Valois, or Margaret of Valois, Marguerite de France

A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself.

Character | Honor | Woman |

Daniel Webster

Educate your children of self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes from society.

Character | Children | Control | Evil | Future | Habit | Passion | Prejudice | Self | Self-control | Society | Will |

Matthias Alexander, fully Frederick Matthias Alexander

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection: it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

Effort | Man | Perfection | Understanding | Wisdom | Woman | Child |

Alexander Walker

Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.

Character | Man | Time | Woman |

Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman

What do you suppose I would intimate to you in a hundred ways but that man or woman is as good as God? And that there is no God any more divine than yourself.

Character | God | Good | Man | Woman | God |

Dada Vaswani, born Jashan Pahalraj Vaswani

What is the meaning of life? The meaning may not be expressed in words. It transcends the mind and the intellect. The meaning is to be experienced, realized... It is open to everyone who would live according to certain disciplines... The discipline of duty. Life is a field of duty, not a dance of desires... The discipline of service... We are here to help others... The opposite of love is not hate but apathy... The discipline of silence... The meaning of life is to love God and to give the service of love to the suffering children of God. And to the birds and animals who are God’s children as well.

Apathy | Character | Children | Discipline | Duty | God | Hate | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Mind | Service | Silence | Suffering | Words | God |