“Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.” George Eliot

“Wit is the soul of brevity.” G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert Magazine July-August 2006

“The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ‘easy life of the gods’ would be a lifeless life.” Hannah Arendt

“It would be far better, as things now stand, to be charged with heresy, than to fall under the suspicion of lacking historical-mindedness, or of questioning the universal validity of the historical method.” A.V. Dicey The Law of the Constitution

“The game will be no different without me. The school will be no different without me. People say, ‘You know, one thing about that old b***, he told the truth, he didn’t cheat, he did what was best for the kids, and that made him special.’ Well, the truth is, that should not make a man special. I always thought that was the way you were supposed to do it.” Bo Schembechler Mitch Albom, BO.

“Only through imitation do we develop toward originality.” John Steinbeck

“If Jesus Christ had taken polls he never would have preached the Gospel.” Congressman Henry Hyde, quoted by Allan Fotheringham in Ottawa Sun December 16 1998.

“’You need not be afraid to be flippant, but you ought to have a horror of being dull.” Lord Bryce addressing “the assembled historians of America” according to Stephen Leacock “Literature and education in America” in Social Criticism: The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice and Other Essays