“Life is too short to be little.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“With no causes to celebrate and no causes to mourn, history is, to paraphrase Elbert Hubbard, one nothing after another.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things December 2005

“Patient students of economics generally... anticipate little good and much evil from schemes for sudden and violent reorganization of the economic, social and political conditions of life.” Alfred Marshall

“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