This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard L. Evans, fully Richard Louis Evans
Among the greatest gifts a parent can give a child - even greater than a hovering, solicitous protection - are the wisdom, the character, the standards that will help him safely to make his own decisions and provide his own protection.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Richard Jefferies, fully John Richard Jefferies
How can I adequately express my contempt for the assertion that all things occur for the best, for a wise and beneficent end, and are ordered by a human intelligence! It is the most utter falsehood and a crime against the human race.
Assertion | Contempt | Crime | Falsehood | Human race | Intelligence | Race | Wise |
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
It is a good thing to believe; it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upwards; as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of those he despises.
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
No possessions are good but by the good use we make of them; without which wealth, power, friends, and servants, do not help to make our lives more unhappy.
Good | Possessions | Power | Wealth |
Simeon ben Lakish, or Shimon ben Lakish or Reish Lakish
Where ignorance thrives, there can be no liberty, nor can it live very long even when there is enlightenment without the help of virtue.
Enlightenment | Ignorance | Liberty | Virtue | Virtue |
Oliver Lodge, fully Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge
Free will was granted to humanity. Man became conscious of good and evil, and his power of free choice. He acquired simultaneously Freedom and Responsibility. Henceforth he could help or he could hinder.
Choice | Evil | Free choice | Free will | Freedom | Good | Humanity | Man | Power | Responsibility | Will |
To learn how to die is to learn how to live; to learn how to live is to learn how to act not only in this life, but in the lives to come. To transform yourself truly and learn how to be reborn as a transformed being to help others is really to help the world in the most powerful way of all.
If two men claim thy help, and one is thy enemy, help him first.
To be remembered after we are dead is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Contempt | Recompense |