John Jay Chapman

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“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“All progress is experimental.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)

“What should we know,
For better or worse,
Of the Long Ago,
Were it not for Verse:”
—Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878–1957)

“Tommy: You’re gonna have trouble with that one.
Milo: Oh no I’m not. He’s just not housebroken yet, that’s all.
Tommy: When are you going to stop getting yourself involved with young itinerant artists? It never works. If they’re no good, you’re ashamed. And if they are, they get independent.”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

“We have watered our houses in Helicon.”
—George Chapman (c. 1559–1634)