This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Good | Inclination | Wisdom | Happiness |
F. H. Bradley, fully Frances Herbert "F.H." Bradley
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
John Bowring, fully Sir John Bowring
He that studies to know duty, and labors in all things to do it, will have two heavens - one of joy, peace and comfort on earth, and the other of glory and happiness beyond the grave.
Comfort | Duty | Earth | Glory | Grave | Joy | Peace | Will | Wisdom | Happiness |
The passions and capacities of our nature are foundations of power, happiness and glory; but if we turn them into occasions and sources of self-indulgence, the structure itself falls, and buries everything in its overwhelming desolation.
Desolation | Glory | Indulgence | Nature | Power | Self | Wisdom | Happiness |
Viewed ecologically, the human saga is a tragic success story.
Philarète Chasles, fully Victor Euphemien Philarète Chasles
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.
Opportunity | Success | Wisdom |
The man who can really, in living union of the mind and heart, converse with God through nature, finds in the material forms around him, a source of power and happiness inexhaustible, and like the life of angels. The highest life and glory of man is to be alive unto God; and when this grandeur of sensibility to him, and this power of communion with him is carried, as the habit of the soul, into the forms of nature, then the walls of our world are as the gates of heaven.
Angels | Glory | God | Habit | Heart | Heaven | Life | Life | Man | Mind | Nature | Power | Sensibility | Soul | Wisdom | World | God | Happiness |
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.