This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Character | Instinct | Motives | Self | Self-preservation |
John H. Vincent, fully John Heyl Vincent
I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Charity | Cheerfulness | Conversation | Day | Diligence | Discontent | Fidelity | God | Habit | Life | Life | Magnanimity | Self | Service | Silence | Thought | Trust | Will | Thought |
Not everybody trust paintings but people believe photographs.
Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.
Competition | Energy | Instinct | Selfishness | Wisdom |
Let us give thanks to God upon Thanksgiving Day. Nature is beautiful and fellowmen are dear, and duty is close beside us, and God is over us and in us. We want to trust Him with a fuller trust, and so at last to come to that high life where we shall be careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let our request be made known unto God”; for that, and that alone, is peace.
Day | Duty | God | Life | Life | Nature | Nothing | Peace | Prayer | Supplication | Trust | Wisdom | God |
The ultimate test of the laughing instinct is that a man should always be ready to laugh at himself.
By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.
Confidence | God | Means | Self | Self-confidence | Trials | Trust | Wisdom | God |
Theodore Cuyler, fully Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
It is the easiest thing in the world for us to obey God when He command us to do what we like, and to trust Him when the path is all sunshine. The real victory of faith is to trust God in the dark, and through the dark. Let us be assured of this, that if the lesson and the rod are of His appointing, and that His all-wise love has engineered the deep tunnel of trial on the heavenward road, He will never desert us during the discipline. The vital thing for us is not to deny and desert Him.
Discipline | Faith | God | Lesson | Love | Trust | Will | Wisdom | Wise | World | Trial | God |
Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Cooperation | Justice | Men | Trust | Wisdom |