This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting a child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction wit the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.
Body | Character | Justice | Mercy | Prison | Right | Society | Will | Wit | Wrong | Society | Child |
Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers
Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
Character | Deeds | Good | Heaven | Kindness | Love | Mercy | Will | Deeds |
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Abu Yazid Tayfur ibn 'Isa ibn Surushan al-Bismtami
Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. Whoever knows God through God becomes alive, and whoever knows God through self becomes dead.
Forgetfulness | God | Self | Wisdom | God |
Stanislas de Boufflers, fully Marquis Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers, Chevalier de Boufflers
Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume.
Russell Victor DeLong, possibly Bertrand Russell V. Delong
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Confidence | Empathy | Faith | Important | Life | Life | Love | Mercy | Trust | Wisdom |
My brother, you cannot forget your sins; but it lies within your own decision whether the remembrance shall be thankfulness and blessedness, or whether it shall be pain and loss forever.
Blessedness | Decision | Pain | Thankfulness | Wisdom | Loss |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The remembrance of pleasure doubles our pain.
It is not just when a villainous act has been committed that it torments us; it is when we think of it afterward, for the remembrance of it last forever.
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff
Our Knowledge is but mere Remembrance all, Remembrance is our Treasure and our Food.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.