This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When Fortune favors a man too much she makes him a fool.
Antoine de Rivarol, also known as Comte de Rivarol
The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.
Expand your thinking of where you are to include your family - your neighbors - your country- other countries - a global village - the universe. Think not as a unit of one, but as a part of a unit of many. And look to the future with hope.
Family | Future | Global | Hope | Thinking | Universe | Wisdom | Think |
Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasure activity.
Aspiration | Fortune | Joy | Pleasure | Wisdom | Aspiration |
To love our neighbors as ourselves does not mean that we should love all people equally, for I do not have an equal love for all the modes of existence of myself. Nor does it mean that we should never make them suffer, for I do not refuse to make myself suffer. But we should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of it.
Existence | Love | People | Relationship | Universe | Wisdom |
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Grief |