This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Character | Distinction | Excellence | Greatness | Success | Wisdom | Excellence |
It is integrity that invests man with immortality, and bestows upon him the privilege of direct communion with God.
Character | God | Immortality | Integrity | Man | Privilege |
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.
[Paraphrase] Self consciousness, while glorious for what is has done, is at the same time baneful, because it precludes man from entering the Cosmic Conscious life, which leads to the infinite - which alone can explain God.
Character | Consciousness | God | Life | Life | Man | Self | Time |