This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We do not learn to know men through their coming to us. To find out what sort of persons they are, we must go to them.
All times are great exactly in proportion as men feel, profoundly, their indebtedness to something or other... A feeling of immeasurable obligation puts life into a man and fight into him, and joy into him.
If men would think more, they would act less.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which Go has manifested to us.
Many men spend their lives gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.
I have found it helpful to keep constantly in mind that there are really two entries to be made for every transaction - one in terms of immediate dollars and cents, the other in terms of goodwill.
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two bear it lightly.
Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem.
In all our reasonings concerning men we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances.
Character | Circumstances | Men |
It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Wisdome teacheth men to forecast the worst, that they may be provided against the worst.
Whatever can lead an intelligent being to the exercise or habit of mental enjoyment, contributes more to his happiness than the highest sensual or mere bodily pleasures. The one feeds the soul, while the other, for the most part, only exhausts the frame, and too often injures the immortal part... Let all seen enjoyments lead to the unseen fountain from whence they flow.