This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe - the open sesame to every soul.
Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner.... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value—to myself, to my family, and to the world.
Will |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, fully Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Passion takes no count of time; peril marks no hours or minutes; wrong makes its own calendar; and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Her big heart did not, as is so sadly often the case, inhabit a big bosom.
There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.
Nothing |
She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
She died--this was the way she died; and when her breath was done, took up her simple wardrobe and started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate the angels must have spied, since I could never find her upon the mortal side.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye; much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority in this, as all, prevails....Much madness is divinest sense to a discerning eye; much sense the starkest madness. ’T is the majority in this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous, and handled with a chain.