“We are as Hector on the walls of Troy with Andromache and always have been. Only the Crystal Palace and all those nineteenth-century trust funds ever assured us otherwise.”
An author whose name I did not record in Chronicles magazine October 1991
“It is a good thing to suffer fools gladly; and an even better thing to enjoy fools uproariously.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News October 9, 1920, quoted in “Chesterton Rewrites more of the Classic Lines” in Gilbert Magazine July-August 2007
"In order to explore new horizons, one must not be afraid to lose sight of the shore."
Quoted without specific attribution in the author’s introduction to Jean-Serge Brisson Tea Party of One
“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."
John Stuart Mill, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail February 15, 2002
“I prefer to regard the sun merely in the light of a strange star that has startled me by visiting my garden in the middle of summer.”
G.K. Chesterton in “On the Solar System” in All I Survey, quoted by James V. Schall S.J. in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 16 # 1-2 (September-October 2012)
“If we dismiss the past as dead and not as a country of the living which our eyes are unable to see, then we are likely to become servile.”
“The southern agrarian Andrew Lytle" quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (December 2002)
“Nobody had nothin’ and we all shared it.”
A “poignant comment of a tough old settler” unearthed by one of his students in some old book, quoted by my old high school English and History teacher Stewart H. Bull in his unpublished biography Happy Warrior: Adventures in the Classroom
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts