This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When a man does a noble act, date him from that. Forget his faults. Let his noble act be the standpoint from which you regard him.
Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.
As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
Character | Melancholy | Poverty | Work |
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust.
Character | Faith | Hero | Innocence | Soul | Strength | Trust | Truth | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |