“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.”

Emily Dickenson

“Anyone with only a week to live will not find it in his interest to believe that all this is just a matter of chance. Now, if we were not bound by our passions, a week and a hundred years would come to the same thing.”

Pascal Pensées

“If a man really cannot make a fool of himself, we may be quite certain that the effort is superfluous.”

G.K. Chesterton in “A Defence of Heraldry” in The Defendant

"His character was of an average kind, rather free from vices than distinguished by virtues."

Tacitus

“And savagery is not history: it is either the beginning of history or the end of it.”

G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas

“If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ‘What would I do if I were a horse?’”

Economist Ely Devons “via economist Ronald Coase via economist Hernado de Soto” according to William Watson in National Post December 29, 2001

“As for being remembered, well, I always thought that was an odd question. I don’t want to be remembered for anything other than what I’m trying to do right now: be a person of some honesty and integrity and reasonable intelligence, who loves his work, makes a lot of friends, and maybe does some good with young people.”

Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom BO

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

Mignon McLaughlin, American journalist and author of the Neurotic’s Notebook series