This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lillian Smith, fully Lillian Eugenia Smith
Minds broken in two. Hearts broken. Conscience torn from acts. A culture split in a thousand pieces. That is segregation.
Character | Conscience | Culture |
We grow with the years more fragile in body but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Body | Character | Conscience |
Roy L. Smith, aka Mr. Methodist
As a man grows older, he values the voice of experience more and the voice of prophecy less. He finds more of life's wealth in the common pleasures - home, health, children. He thinks more about worth of men and less about their wealth. He boasts less and boosts more. He hurries less, and usually makes more progress. He esteems the friendship of God a little higher.
Character | Children | Experience | God | Health | Life | Life | Little | Man | Men | Progress | Prophecy | Wealth | Worth | Friendship | God |
We can do nothing well without joy, and a good conscience which is the ground of joy.
Character | Conscience | Good | Joy | Nothing |
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Character | Conscience | Fear | Guilt |
The one and only serious mistake is to be afraid of making mistakes.
Good character is human nature in its best form. It is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power; for it is moral qualities which, in the main, rule the world.
Character | Conscience | Good | Human nature | Individual | Men | Nature | Order | Power | Qualities | Rule | Society | World |
Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Character | Conscience | Deeds | Good | Heart | Pain | Deeds |
Richard Steele, fully Sir Richard Steele
Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason.
Advice | Character | Conduct | Experience | Passion | Rashness | Reason | Regard |
Lawrence Sterne, alternatively Laurence Sterne
Trust that man is nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
Character | Conscience | Man | Nothing | Trust |
No man becomes fully evil at once; but suggestion bringeth on indulgence; indulgence, delight; delight, consent; consent, endeavor; endeavor, practice; practice, custom; custom, excuse; excuse, defense; defense, obstinacy; obstinacy, boasting; boasting, a seared conscience and a reprobate mind.
Boasting | Character | Conscience | Custom | Defense | Evil | Indulgence | Man | Mind | Practice |