Richard Howard

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“Nothing happens until something moves.”
― Albert Einstein

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind