“Great emergencies show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.” William James
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” Robert Schuller
“How strange it is that, no matter how gross a superstition may have polluted it, a holy place, if hallowed by long veneration, remains always holy. Look at Delphi. What a fraud it was, and yet how hallowed it must ever remain.”
Samuel Butler Erewhon
“My idea of housework is to give the room a sweeping glance.” More Internet Tag Lines in Gilbert Magazine July/August 2001
“Everything factual is already a theory.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad.”
1st sentence of author’s preface in Gregory of Tours’ late 6th century The History of the Franks
“Economics is not a quantitative science like nuclear physics. It is not even an applied quantitative science like civil engineering. Rather, it is, at least in its origins, a moral science, even if most economists may be scandalized to discover this.”
Barry Cooper and Mebs Kanji, Governing in Post-Deficit Times: Alberta in the Klein Years
“Always endeavour to be really what you would wish to appear.”
A favourite maxim of his family according to Granville Sharp