This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If you wish to please people, you must begin by understanding them.
Character | People | Understanding |
Of all vices to take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections - this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul - this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way - this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
Character | Reason | Soul | Understanding | Will |
The value of silence in art is its stimulation to the imagination.
To feel, to feel exquisitely, is the lot of every man; it is the charm that lends a superstitious joy to fear. But to appreciate belongs to the few; to one or two alone, here and there, the blended passion and understanding that constitute in its essence worship.
Character | Fear | Joy | Man | Passion | Understanding | Worship |
Lord Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
The perfection of virtue is from... long art and management, self-control.
Art | Character | Control | Perfection | Self | Self-control | Virtue | Virtue | Art |
Immortality is the greatness of our being; the scene for attaining the fullness and perfection of our existence.
Character | Existence | Greatness | Immortality | Perfection |
When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.
Character | Heart | Understanding |