Wit & Wisdom

“Always do right. It will please some people and astonish the rest.”

Mark Twain, quoted in the Financial Times

“By indignities men come to dignities.”

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Francis Bacon, quoted in the Associated Press

“What is a long life but a nightmare of endless repetition?”

Gore Vidal, quoted in Salon.com

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

Helen Keller, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything.”

Susan Sontag, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

Anaïs Nin, quoted in the Melbourne Age

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

James Baldwin, quoted in The Huffington Post