This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Mendele Mokher Sforim or Sfarim, pseudonymn of Shalom Jacob Abramowitsch
Respect the children of the poor! From them come most poets.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The only good histories are those that have been written by the very men who were in command in the affairs, or who were participants in the conduct of them or who at least have had the fortune to conduct others of the same sort... What can you expect of a doctor discussing war, or a schoolboy discussing the intentions of princes?
Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Mankind must not be governed with too much severity; we ought to make a prudent use of the means which nature has given us to conduct them. If we inquire into the cause of all human corruptions, we shall find that they proceed form the impunity of criminals, and not from the moderation of punishments.
Cause | Conduct | Mankind | Means | Moderation | Nature | Wisdom | Moderation |
Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
One of the most difficult lessons parents have to learn is this one: Children are only loaned for a brief term of infancy and childhood. Soon they become people, strangers in the home, and instead of children to be directed they are grown-ups to be studied, understood and accepted. The acceptance is never quite complete on either side, but affection will bridge the gap if it is permitted to do so.
Acceptance | Childhood | Children | Infancy | Parents | People | Will | Wisdom | Learn |
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics... they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Children | Perception | Problems | Wisdom |