This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If any young man expects without faith, without thought, without study, without patient, persevering labor, in the midst of and in spite of discouragement, to attain anything in this world tht is worth attaining, he will simply wake up, by-and-by, and find that he has been playing the part of a fool.
Character | Faith | Labor | Man | Study | Thought | Will | World | Worth |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The will of a man is his happiness.
When is a man free? Now when he is driftwood on the stream of life... free of all cares or worries or ambitions... He is not free at all... To be free in action, in struggle, in undiverted and purposeful achievement, to move forward towards a worthy objective across a fierce terrain of resistance, to be vital and allow in the exercise of a great enterprise - that is to be free, and to know the joy and exhilaration of true freedom. A man is free only when he has an errand on earth.
Achievement | Action | Character | Earth | Freedom | Joy | Life | Life | Man | Struggle |
To have to die is a distinction which no man is proud.
Character | Distinction | Man |
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.
Wherever there is lost the consciousness that every man is an object of concern for us just because he is a man, civilization and morals are shaken, and the advance to fully developed inhumanity is only a question of time.
Character | Civilization | Consciousness | Inhumanity | Man | Object | Question | Time |
No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Nothing more unqualifies a man to act iwth prudence, than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Character | Guilt | Man | Misfortune | Nothing | Prudence | Prudence | Shame | Misfortune |
Thomas Talfourd, fully Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.
Character | Emotions | Heart | Lesson | Man | Nothing | Quiet | Sympathy | Will |