This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose." - William James
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation." - William James
"Through the want of a sincere intention of pleasing God in all our actions, we fall into such irregularities of life as, by the ordinary means of grace, we should have power to avoid." - William Law