This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind’s eye to read its oracles.
Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances.
Reform |
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.
Conservatism | Man | Power | Reform |
What a strange power there is in silence! How many resolutions are formed, how many sublime conquests effected, during that pause when lips are closed, and the soul secretly feels the eye of her Maker upon her! They are the strong ones of earth who know how to keep silence when it is a pain and grief unto them, and who gives time to their own souls to wax strong against temptation.
Earth | Grief | Pain | Power | Silence | Soul | Temptation | Time |
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor or difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep vigilant eye on many sources of error.
Love harmonizes the three powers of our soul, and binds them together. The will, with ineffable love, follows what the eye of the understanding has beheld; and, with its strong hand, it stores up in the memory the treasure that id draws from this love.
Love | Memory | Soul | Understanding | Will |
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
God | Heaven | Meditation | Prayer | Soul |
The space of a needle's eye suffices for two friends, while the universe itself is not wide enough for two enemies.
On the science of beauty everywhere - Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forthe and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
Beauty | Friend | God | Man | Mind | Mortal | Reality | Science | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Beauty | God |
Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
Better | Existence | Good | Imagination | Nothing |