This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In this country my Lords... the individual subject... 'has nothing to do with the laws but to obey them'
Affliction | Character | Distinguish | Feelings | Man | Perfection | Sensibility | Society | Suffering | Friendship | Society | Blessed |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have anything else to amuse them.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Experience | Love | Perfection |
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
Therefore, steadfastly devoted to me, gain control over speech, mind, and Pr4a. To him who is endowed with love for me, 0 Uddhava, belongs the fullness of We.
Will |
Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.
The profound mystery in the Vedanta was taught in the previous cycle. It should not be given to one whose passions have not been subdued, nor to one who is not a son or a disciple.
Absence | Perfection |
Anyone whose attention and love are really directed towards the reality outside the world recognizes at the same time that he is bound, both in public and private life, by the single and permanent obligation to remedy, according to his responsibilities and to the extent of his power, all the privations of soul and body which are liable to destroy or damage the earthly life of any human being whatsoever. This obligation cannot legitimately be held to be limited by the insufficiency of power or the nature of the responsibilities until everything possible has been done to explain the necessity of the limitation to those who will suffer by it; the explanation must be completely truthful and must be such as to make it possible for them to acknowledge the necessity. No combination of circumstances ever cancels this obligation. If there are circumstances which seem to cancel it as regards a certain man or category of men, they impose it in fact all the more imperatively. The thought of this obligation is present to all men, but in very different forms and in very varying degrees of clarity. Some men are more and some are less inclined to accept — or to refuse — it as their rule of conduct.
Anthony Hope, fully Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Experience | Life | Life | Understanding | Wisdom |
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
My friend's wiry arms were around me and he was leading me to the chair. You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake say that you're not hurt! It was worth a wound -it was worth many wounds- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay? beyond that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
Impression | Light | Vision |
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
Like many men who override the opinions of others, Challenger was exceedingly sensitive when anyone took a liberty with his own
Distinguish | Enough | History | Life | Life | Mortal | Perfection | Present | Science | Learn |
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
I wanted to end the world but, I'll settle for ending yours.
Anselm of Canterbury, aka Saint Anselm or Archbishop of Canterbury NULL
Therefore, a statement has one correctness and truth because it signifies what it is designed to signify; and it has another correctness and truth because it signifies what it has received the capability of signifying. The first of these correctnesses, or truths, belongs variably to the statement; but the second belongs to it invariably.
Eternal | God | Reason | Regard | Respect | Respect | God | Think |
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl of Bewdley
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.
Action | Fear | Future | Glory | Good | Knowledge | Light | Lord | Love | Order | Perfection | Present | Strength | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Blessed |
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.
The animals of the Burgess Shale are holy objects—in the unconventional sense that this word conveys in some cultures. We do not place them on pedestals and worship from afar. We climb mountains and dynamite hillsides to find them. We quarry them, split them, carve them, draw them, and dissect them, struggling to wrest their secrets. We vilify and curse them for their damnable intransigence. They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something.
Evolutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.
Evolution | History | Perfection | Smile |
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, for the apparel oft proclaims the man.