“For Christmas is, as a matter of fact, the standing example of the proposition which I have lately been maintaining; I mean the proposition that without the superhuman we are not human.”

G.K. Chesterton debating newspaper editor Robert Blatchford in December 2003, quoted by Sean P. Dailey in “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #3 (December 2003)

A brief excerpt from a chess instructional video by GM Ben Finegold. His comments on chess are great... if you like chess. (And you can find lots of them on YouTube.) But this is a rather wistful reflection on how much childhood has changed that I think is of far wider interest.

In Convivium I say the NAC production of Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater” is a surprising, delightful and morally intelligent improvement on the original.

“It takes the nerve of a robber’s horse, as a Newfoundlander might say…”

Maclean’s Nov. 9, 1998 [I did not record the author’s name]

In my latest National Post column I say the “Gilets jaunes” in France have legitimate grievances. But unfortunately not legitimate solutions.

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”

Lao-Tsu in the “Tao Teh King” [sic] quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

’Nothing succeeds like success” - Alexandre Dumas in Ange Pitou 1854

“Nothing succeeds like excess” - Oscar Wilde 1894

“Nothing recedes like success” - Bryan Forbes 1926

“Nothing succeeds like address” - Fran Lebowitz 1978

“those who attach too much importance to immediate victory will abandon any project at the first hint of failure. There is nothing that fails like success.” - G.K. Chesterton in Heretics 1905

All from Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)