This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.
Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action; so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory.
Action | Glory | God | Honor | Life | Life | Meditation | Reward | Soul | Wisdom | God |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
If they really want to honor the soldiers, why don't they let them sit in the stands and have the people march by?
There is no greater unreasonableness in the world than in the designs of ambition; for it makes the present certainly miserable, unsatisfactory, troublesome, and discontented, for the uncertain acquisition of an honor which nothing can secure; and, besides a thousand possibilities of miscarrying, it relies upon no greater certainty than our life; and when we are dead all the world sees who was the fool.
Ambition | Honor | Life | Life | Nothing | Present | Wisdom | World |
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
Glory | Government | Man | Object | Peace | War | Government | Happiness |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
The glory of human nature lies in our seeming capacity to exercise conscious control of our own destiny.
Capacity | Control | Destiny | Glory | Human nature | Nature |
R. W. Dixon, fully Richard Watson Dixon
THERE is a soul above the soul of each, A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs: There is a sound made of all human speech, And numerous as the concourse of all songs: And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, Though all the ages are its lifetime vast; Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole Receiveth life that shall forever last. And thus forever with a wider span Humanity o’erarches time and death; Man can elect the universal man, And live in life that ends not with his breath: And gather glory that increase still Till Time his glass with Death’s last dust shall fill.
Ambition is not a reprehdnsible quality, nor are ambitious men to be censured, if they seek glory through honorable and honest means. In fact, it is they who produce great and excellent works. Those who lack this passion are cold spirits, inclined towards laziness than activity. But ambition is pernicious and detestable when it has as its sole end power.
Ambition | Glory | Laziness | Means | Men | Passion | Power | Ambition |
A person cannot honor that which does not affect his finer sensibilities, his conscience, his sense of meaning.
Conscience | Honor | Meaning | Sense |