William Dodson

“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I have found, to depression as well. You yourself will be given light in exchange for pouring yourself out for the hungry; you yourself will get guidance, the satisfaction of your longings, and strength, when you “pour yourself out,” when you make the satisfaction of somebody else's desire your own concern; you yourself will be a source of refreshment, a builder, a leader into healing and rest at a time when things around you seem to have crumbled.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

“But then, at meals, my attention is pretty well riveted on the foodstuffs.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves