This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Strength of character is not measured by who we support but by knowing we all lean on one another.
Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
Character | Experience | Good | Sense | Wisdom |
Trifles discover a character more than actions of importance.
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Every individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Character | Contradiction | Individual | Right | Self | Wrong |
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 |
Learning is the raising of character by the broadening of vision and the deepening of feeling.
Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Trifles discover character more than actions of seeming importance; what one is in little things he is also in great.