This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Into what boundless life does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being - positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.
Destroy | Education | Existence | Life | Life | Qualities | Time | Truth | Wisdom |
There is a time in the lives of most of us when, despondent of all joy in an earthly future, and tortured by conflicts between inclination and duty, we transfer all the passion and fervor of our troubled souls to enthusiastic yearnings for the divine love, looking to its mercy, and taking thence the only hopes that can cheer - the only strength that can sustain us.
Duty | Future | Inclination | Joy | Love | Mercy | Passion | Strength | Time | Wisdom | Yearnings |
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, business-wise?
Business | Conversation | Good | Men | Mind | Time | Wisdom | Wise |
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Luck | Opportunity | Time | Wisdom | Luck |
Each generation of Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational skills of one generation will not surpass, will not equal, will not even approach those of their parents.
Attainment | Education | History | Parents | Time | Will | Wisdom |
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Excellence | God | Good | Impulse | Life | Life | Longing | Soul | Time | Wisdom | Excellence |
There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Desire | Enough | Faith | Love | Remorse | Submission | Time | Wisdom |
It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."