This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Great wealth is a great blessing to a man who knows what to do with it.
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you have for which you would not take money.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
If an international system could be established which would remove the fear of war, the improvement in everyday mentality of everyday people would be enormous and very rapid. Fear, at present, overshadows the world.
Fear | Improvement | People | Present | System | War | World |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of the spec our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical qualities, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in the principles of morals. Yet philosophers have arranged their moral system entirely independent of this. What an extraordinary blindness!
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness hereafter.
The consideration of the small addition often made by wealth to the happiness of the possessor may check the desire and prevent the insatiability which sometimes attends it... Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
Consideration | Desire | Power | Respect | Wealth | Will | Respect | Happiness |
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming its slave; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
Association | Gold | Law | Men | Riches | Wealth | Will | World | Riches | Association |
Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant, finish by becoming its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence.
Association | Gold | Law | Men | Riches | Wealth | Will | World | Riches | Association |
The most striking defect of our system of government is that it divides political power and thereby conceals political responsibility.
Government | Power | Responsibility | System | Government |
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.
Temptation | Wealth | Temptation |
Real wealth is determined by the level of your ability to live our your dreams.