This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
At present we can only reason of the divine justice form what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.
Ideas | Justice | Life | Life | Man | Present | Reason | Wisdom |
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
Roscoe Pound, fully Nathan Roscoe Pound
Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
Experience | Law | Reason | Wisdom |
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only to listen too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body, which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.
Body | Conscience | Instinct | Man | Nature | Reason | Right | Soul | Wisdom | Afraid |
Andrew Ramsay, fully Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet
Never reason from what you do not know. If you do, you will soon believe what is utterly against reason.