“Life is not only a pleasure, but a kind of eccentric privilege.” G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy

“With cheerfully smoothed countenances, day after day, and generation after generation, they, calling cheerfully to one another, Well-sped ye, are at work, sowing the wind. And yet, as God lives, they shall reap the whirlwind; no other thing, we say, is possible, - since God is a Truth and His World is a Truth.”

Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution

“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson

“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.” William James

“Some people reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.” “Anonymous” according to “Social Studies” Thought du jour in Globe and Mail September 27 2002

“Apart from the religious vision, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.” Alfred North Whitehead, quoted by William Barrett The Illusion of Technique

“No one can be really hilarious but the serious man. The thing called high spirits is possible only to the spiritual. Ultimately a man cannot rejoice in anything except the nature of things. Ultimately a man can enjoy nothing but religion.” G.K. Chesterton in Heretics, quoted in Gilbert! Vol. 4 # 4

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” Friedrich Nietzsche