This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The best way to keep friends is never to owe them anything and never lend them anything.
One of the most difficult lessons parents have to learn is this one: Children are only loaned for a brief term of infancy and childhood. Soon they become people, strangers in the home, and instead of children to be directed they are grown-ups to be studied, understood and accepted. The acceptance is never quite complete on either side, but affection will bridge the gap if it is permitted to do so.
Acceptance | Childhood | Children | Infancy | Parents | People | Will | Wisdom | Learn |
A man selects his enemies, his friends make themselves, and from these friends he is apt to suffer.
To be confined by the feet with friends is better than to walk in a garden with strangers.
It is not enough for parents to understand children. they must accord children the privilege of understanding them.
Children | Enough | Parents | Understanding | Wisdom | Privilege | Understand |
Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Contempt | Familiarity | Knowledge | Love | Nature | Wisdom |