WIST

If I were to say “God, why me?” about the bad things, then I should have said “God, why me?” about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) American athlete
(Attributed)

The modern world … holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English journalist and writer
Heretics, ch. 20 (1905)

Courage charms us becaue it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all the things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor hismoney, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet
Journal (Fall 1859)

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be as constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Men and Manners, “On Cant and Hypocrisy” (1852)