This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The roads to freedom do not run through the lands out yonder, but rather through our inner selves.
Janet Erskine Stuart, known as Mother Janet Stuart
We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.
Character | Obligation |
There be four good mothers who have four bad daughters: Truth hath Hatred, Prosperity hath Pride, Security hath Peril, and Familiarity hath Contempt.
Character | Contempt | Familiarity | Good | Peril | Pride | Prosperity | Security | Truth |
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down.
A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.
Security is never absolute... The government of a free people must take certain chances for the sake of maintaining freedom which the government of a police state avoids because it holds freedom to be of no value.
Absolute | Freedom | Government | People | Security | Wisdom | Government |