This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
My Word, said Bouvard, look at those worlds disappearing. Pecuchet replied: If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling. What is the point of it all? Perhaps there isn?t a point. Beautiful things spoil nothing. Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.
Excellence | Passion | Will | Excellence |
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
Sorrow |