This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well you part: there all the honor lies.
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy.
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Teresa of Avila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
I believe that honor and money nearly always go together… Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening.
Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
All human societies supplement politics with ethics; all of them to some degree are ordered by a moral code, if only honor among thieves.