This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. One who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
Surely not without reason, when pirates, highwaymen, and other varieties of the extensive genus Marauder, are the only beau ideal of the active, as splenetic and railing misanthropy is of the speculative energy.
If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.
Day | Duty | Good | Hope | Impression | Little | Manliness | Thinking | Waiting |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The lower classes of people in Europe may at some future period be much better instructed then they are at present; they may be taught to employ the little spare time they have in many better ways than at the ale-house; they may live under better and more equal laws than they have hitherto done, perhaps, in any country; and I even conceive it possible, though not probable, that they may have more leisure; but it is not in the nature of things, that they can be awarded such a quantity of money or substance, as will allow them all to marry early, in the full confidence that they shall be able to provide with ease for a numerous family.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Beginning | Duty | Revolution |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible. By the time a man has grown old enough to have a son in college he has specialized. The university should generalize the treatment of its undergraduates, should struggle to put them in touch with every force of life.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
Government | Individual | Law | Little | Government | Privilege |
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of the reach of evidence, and time having robbed most of them of historical value by enthroning them in the region of legend.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age
Boldness | Business | Difficulty | Law | Business |
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
Administration | Example | Excellence | Government | Justice | Law | Man | Obscurity | Obscurity | Poverty | Public | Reward | Rivalry | Excellence | Government |