“Work like you don’t need money, Love like you’ve never been hurt, And dance like no one’s watching” from an obituary in the National Post in January 2004; it seems to be adapted from the lyrics to the country song “Come from the Heart” published in 1984
“Religion, as mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”
John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua
“It is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
Samuel Johnson in The Rambler
“Altho’ thy teacher act not as he preaches,/ Yet ne’ertheless, if good, do what he teaches;/ Good counsel, failing men may give, for why,/ He that’s aground knows where the shoal doth lie.”
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac
“A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.” “Wisdom from Granny and Gramps” in Gilbert Magazine June 2004.
“He who seeks the salvation of the soul, of his own and of others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics, for the quite different tasks of politics can only be solved by violence.”
Max Weber “Politics as a Vocation” (28/1/1919)
“You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.”
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
“since our life must at the best be but a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in the height of Heaven, not a thick darkness that broods over the blast of the Furnace, and rolling of the Wheel.” – John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture
