“To me a post is wonderful because it is there.” G.K. Chesterton quoted by John Peterson in Gilbert! Vol. 3 #8 (July/August 2000)
“The great inlet by which a color for oppression has entered the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another, and by claiming to use what means he thinks proper in order to bring him to a sense of it. It is the ordinary and trite sophism of oppression.” Edmund Burke (quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things February 2003, saying he learned of it from a correspondent named Nino Langiulli)
“Events cast their shadows before them.” Euripedes, quoted in Scott Gardiner King John of Canada
“Habit is second nature.” A favourite quotation of my father John M. Robson, attributed online to Diogenes
“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
“Red in tooth and claw, we come at last to a fierce and painful city, to the bloody, unobliging reciprocity in which life lives by death, but still insists that death is robbery. But more, We come home…”
Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb
“that proverb of the Greeks, ‘An ape is an ape, though clad in scarlet’”. Erasmus In Praise of Folly
“Believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that your life and temperament have some object on the earth. Believe that you have something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given. Believe that it is possible, even if you are the enemy of the human race, to be the friend of God.” G.K. Chesterton in “The Philosophy of Browning” in Robert Browning, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #7 (June-July 2007)