Peter Dohan

“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”
― Jacques Barzun

“The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.”
― P. T. Barnum

“If a man were to spend years of his life trying to discover the chemical constituency of salt water without bothering to find out what has already been said on the subject in any elementary chemistry book, we should say that he was making very imperfect use of the resources available to us. Similarly, can it not be said that people, worrying themselves sick over their individual frustrations, constantly suffering from petty irritations and hypertensions, are making extremely imperfect use of the available human resources of adjustment when they fail to strengthen and quiet themselves through contact with literature, music, painting, and the other arts?”
― S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action

“Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn’t wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Book Of Negroes