“A very wise man once said to me that in this life you could often get success, if you didn’t want victory.” Richard Hannay’s friend Sandy Arbuthnot in John Buchan The Three Hostages

“It is surprising how at the bottom of a political problem, some theology can often be found.” James M. Pitsula in The Beaver August-September 2005, re the rival visions of Tommy Douglas in Saskatchewan and “Bible Bill” Aberhart in Alberta in the 1930s.

“I’m not tense… just terribly, terribly alert.” One of the “Expressions for women under stress” found on the Internet, quoted in the Globe and Mail March 16 2001

“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