This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.
Character | Earth | Life | Life | Pride | Prosperity | Rage | Temptation |
He who will not curb his passion, will wish that undone which his grief and resentment suggested, while he violently plies his revenge with unsated rancor. Rage is a short madness. Rule your passion, which commands, if it do not obey; do not restrain it with a bridle, and with fetters.
Character | Grief | Madness | Passion | Rage | Rancor | Resentment | Revenge | Rule | Will |
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war, or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
Achievement | Character | Death | Gold | Ideas | Indifference | Industry | Land | Life | Life | Rage | War | World |
Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.
Those who rage today against the ideals of reason and of individual freedom, and seek to impose an insensate state of slavery by means of brutal force, rightly see in the Jews irreconcilable opponents.
Force | Freedom | Ideals | Individual | Means | Rage | Reason | Slavery | Wisdom |
One of the characteristics of great drawing is the artist's wholehearted acceptance of his own style and character. It is as if the drawing says for the artist, "Here I am."
Acceptance | Character | Style | Wisdom |
People who fly into rage always make a bad landing.
Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of a good style in speaking or in writing.
Good | Important | Style | Unconsciousness | Wisdom | Writing |
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.
Humility is the most excellent natural cure for anger in the world, for he, that by daily considering his own infirmities and failings, makes the error of his servant or neighbor to be his own case, and remembers that he daily needs God’s pardon and his brother’s charity, will not be apt to rage at the levities, or misfortunes, or indiscretions of another.
Anger | Charity | Error | God | Humility | Pardon | Rage | Will | World |
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
Style |
It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.