“The accuser is the primary role of Satan in the Bible, and so Byron was very accurate when he refers to history, the record of what man has done, as ‘the devil’s scripture.’” Northrop Frye The Great Code

“But the temptation to cosmic justice is derailed by the call for economic hygiene.” William F. Buckley Jr. in National Review December 6 1999

“We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” Aristotle

“Everything can be taken away from man but one thing – to choose one’s attitude in a given set of circumstances, to choose one’s way.” Viktor Frankl, who managed to write Man’s Search for Meaning while in Dachau and Auschwitz

“The fundamental question to be asked about any theological statement is, ‘What is the evidence that makes you think this might be true?’” John Polkinghorne The Faith of a Physicist

“He’s as tough as a 50 cent steak.” Golfing legend Lee Trevino on his long-time rival Raymond Floyd, quoted by an announcer on TSN April 7 1996

“It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” John Buchan

“History is philosophy, teaching by examples.” Dionysius Halicarnassus quoted by John Lukacs At the End of an Age (Lukacs adds “and Bolingbroke, nearly two thousand years later”).