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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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 |

Elsie Landon Buck

The stamp of a parent's life on a child's is indelible in every phase of living. What a parent passes on to his child is, essentially, all that he himself is. And the essentials of life are found in the attitudes of heart and mind.

Heart | Life | Life | Mind | Wisdom | Child | Parent |

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

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Heart | Love | Suffering | Wisdom |

John Bunyan

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

Heart | Wisdom | Words |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Each things lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

God | Heart | Love | Man | Nature | Truth | Wisdom | Intellect |

Vernon Carter

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but now what they mean.

Crime | Education | Mind | Progress | Science | Wisdom | Words | Child |

Samuel Butler

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

Wisdom | Words |

Richard Cecil

I extend the circle of real religion very widely. Many men fear God, and love God, and have sincere desire to serve him, whose views of religious truth are very imperfect, and in some points utterly false. But may not many such persons have a state of heart acceptable before God?

Desire | Fear | God | Heart | Love | Men | Religion | Truth | Wisdom |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusions.

Desire | Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The only popularity worth aspiring after, is the popularity of the heart - the popularity that is won in the bosom of families, and at the side of death beds.

Death | Heart | Popularity | Wisdom | Worth |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart felt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Heart | Poetry | Truth | Wisdom |