This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
Kindness |
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Action |
Comfort and peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only and always from what we know about Him.
Justice |
God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if your wings are being developed.
Justice |
There never was a shoe however handsome that did not become an ugly slipper.
J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
Ambiguity | Better | Compassion | Enemy | Failure | Injustice | Injustice | Justice | Little | Means | People | Religion | Sense | Tradition | Understanding | Work | Failure |
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes Luke a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadowdilly, small and slender like. Hard as di'monds, soft as moonlight. Warm as sunlight, cold as frost in the stars. Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair in springtime.
Action | Global | Present | Property | Sense | System | Thought | Will | Thought |