A man who is perpetually thinking of whether this race or that race is strong, of whether this cause or that cause is promising, is the man who will never believe in anything long enough to make it succeed.
一个人若时时盘算哪个民族强大、哪项事业有前途,就永远无法长久相信任何事物,直到使它获得成功。
— G. K. Chesterton · Heretics · I. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy —