“Calm is not life’s crown, but calm is well”

Matthew Arnold, quoted in Stefan Collini, Arnold.

“If you shoot for the moon, maybe you’ll only get to the street lamp, but at least you got off the ground.” Dennis Koslowski, after winning bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1988 Olympics (he won silver in 1992)

“'Can’t you lead a good life without believing in Christianity?’ This is the question on which I have been asked to write, and straight away, before I begin trying to answer it, I have a comment to make. The question sounds as if it were asked by a person who said to himself, ‘I don’t care whether Christianity is in fact true or not. I’m not interested in finding out whether the real universe is more like what the Christians say than what the materialists say. All I’m interested in is leading a good life. I’m going to choose beliefs not because I think them true but because I think them helpful.’ Now frankly, I find it hard to sympathize with this state of mind…. Christianity is not a patent medicine.”

C.S. Lewis “Man or Rabbit?” in The Grand Miracle

“I sat... meditating on the many vicissitudes that come to a man during the seventy years or so immediately preceding his funeral.”

Narrator Jeff Peters in “Cupid a la Carte” in O. Henry Heart of the West

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”

Eden Phillpotts

“Imperial Rome has seemed, to the people of many later centuries, a peculiarly enthralling and moving theme, and that is what it remains –unique, terrible, and rich in allurements and astonishments. I shall be happy in this book if I can transmit even a small charge of its versatile, potent magnetism.”

Author’s Foreword to Michael Grant The World of Rome

“A mere recital of the economic policies of governments all over the world is calculated to cause any serious student of economics to throw up his hands in despair. What possible point can there be, he is likely to ask, in discussing refinements and advances in economic theory, when popular thought and the actual policies of governments, certainly in everything connected with international relations, have not yet caught up with Adam Smith?”

Henry Hazlitt Economic in One Lesson

“Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.” George W. Lyon