This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Among the many advantages of experience, one of the most valuable is that we come to know the range of our own powers, and if we are wise we keep contentedly within them.
Experience | Wisdom | Wise |
When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Common Sense | Sense | Wisdom | Wise |
A wise man will select his books, for he would not wish to class them all under the sacred name of friends. Some can be accepted only as acquaintances. The best books of all kinds are taken to the heart, and cherished as his most precious possessions. Others to be chatted with for a time, to spend a few pleasant hours with and laid aside, but not forgotten.
Books | Heart | Man | Possessions | Sacred | Time | Will | Wisdom | Wise |
Alain de Lille (or Alanus ab Insulis)
A wise man reflects before he speaks. A fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.