“I sat... meditating on the many vicissitudes that come to a man during the seventy years or so immediately preceding his funeral.”

Narrator Jeff Peters in “Cupid a la Carte” in O. Henry Heart of the West

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”

Eden Phillpotts

“Imperial Rome has seemed, to the people of many later centuries, a peculiarly enthralling and moving theme, and that is what it remains –unique, terrible, and rich in allurements and astonishments. I shall be happy in this book if I can transmit even a small charge of its versatile, potent magnetism.”

Author’s Foreword to Michael Grant The World of Rome

“A mere recital of the economic policies of governments all over the world is calculated to cause any serious student of economics to throw up his hands in despair. What possible point can there be, he is likely to ask, in discussing refinements and advances in economic theory, when popular thought and the actual policies of governments, certainly in everything connected with international relations, have not yet caught up with Adam Smith?”

Henry Hazlitt Economic in One Lesson

“Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.” George W. Lyon

“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Our concern is with the search for truth. A religious belief can do all sorts of things for us – it can sustain us in life and in the approach of death; it can provide a thread of meaning in what would otherwise be a labyrinth of inanity – but it cannot do these things with integrity unless it is founded on the truth. I have great sympathy with David Pailin when he says that ‘Attempts to defend theism by ignoring the question of truth… are fundamentally atheistic. They worship human wishes rather than ultimate reality.’… The religious believer wishes to be found in the company of honest inquirers and not of polemicists for a cause.”

John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist.

“Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?” “Top 15 Taglines From the Internet” in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 3 No. 4 (Jan/Feb. 2000).