“In order to arrive at what you are not,/ You must go through the way/ In which you are not.”

T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets

“You are not ambitious to be something, you are ambitious to do something, and that makes all the difference in a man.”

Henry Kissinger, speaking to William Safire

“Surely what matters in a dogma - religious, political or any other kind - is not the motive of those who advance it, but whether it is true or false.” Ted and Virginia Byfield in British Columbia Report August 18, 1997

“no man feels himself master of his work, unless he can afford to jest about it; and … a frolicsome habit of mind is rather a token of deep, genial, and superabundant vitality, than of a shallow and narrow nature, which can only be earnest and attentive by conscious and serious efforts”

Rev. Charles Kingsley, quoted by John Mercel Robson in “Thirty Years with the Right Project: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill”

“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.”

Orison S. Marden

“Illustrious examples are displayed to our view, that we may imitate as well as admire…. law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.”

James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States

“the whole of economics can be reduced to a single sentence. The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”

Henry Hazlitt Economics in One Lesson

“There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong.”

G.K. Chesterton in The Common Man