Great Throughts Treasury

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

Posterity

"The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark." - Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf

"To look facts in the face is the duty of every sensible person. Before that combustion of hazy ideas called comprehension can take place, air must be admitted between the emotions." - Victor Hugo

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children." - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

"Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there." -

"For this reason a man truly modest is as much so when he is alone as in company, and as subject to a blush in his closet as when the eyes of multitudes are upon him." - Eustace Budgell