This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
What a noble gift to man are the forests! What a debt of gratitude and admiration we owe to their beauty and their utility! How pleasantly the shadows of the wood fall upon our heads when we turn from the glitter and turmoil of the world of man!
Admiration | Beauty | Character | Debt | Gratitude | Man | Turmoil | Wisdom | World | Beauty |
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 1st Baron Burghley, also Lord William Cecil Burleigh
Beware of suretyship for thy best friend. He that payeth another man’s debt seeketh his own decay. But if thou canst not otherwise choose, rather lend the money thyself upon good bonds, although thou borrow it; so shalt thou secure thyself, and pleasure thy friend.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Debt | Prosperity | Wisdom |
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten... America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness - justice.
Debt | Determination | Greatness | History | Indispensable | Justice | Ugly | Will | Wisdom |
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But here was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that this was my life. This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
Business | Debt | Life | Life | Time | Happiness | Obstacle |
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Mike Pence, formally Michael Richard "Mike" Pence
We have to make sure that a catastrophe of nature does not become a catastrophe of debt for our children and grandchildren.
One can pay back the gift of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quiets is still deeper in debt to himself.
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.