This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If the whole world's our home where we may run, up, friends, forsake those secondary schools which give grains, units, inches for the whole! If facts surpass mere words, melt pride of soul, And pain, and ignorance that hardens fools, here in the fire I've stolen from the Sun!
And the true and healthy Americanism is to be found, let us believe, in this attitude of hope; an attitude not necessarily connected with culture nor with the absence of culture, but with the consciousness of a new impulse given to all human progress. The most ignorant man may feel the full strength and heartiness of the American idea, and so may the most accomplished scholar. It is a matter of regret if thus far we have mainly had to look for our Americanism and our scholarship in very different quarters, and if it has been a rare delight to find the two in one.
So doth the greater glory dim the less: a substitute shines brightly as a king until a king be by.
O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.