"Take away the supernatural and what remains is the unnatural." G.K. Chesterton in Heretics

"You don’t like the Princess?" "I regard her as the sand in Civilization’s spinach." Sir Buckstone Abbott and Joe Vanringham in P.G. Wodehouse Summer Moonshine

"Life is a fight and not a conversation." G.K. Chesterton quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 13 # 8 (7-8/10) p. 45.

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization." G.M. Trevelyan, English Social History

"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." "Herbert Stein's Law" coined by economist and chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors Herbert Stein; often rephrased as "Trends that can't continue, won't."

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain (what I consider the most enviable of all titles) the character of an honest man, as well as prove (what I desire to be considered in reality) that I am" George Washington, in a letter to Alexander Hamilton August 28, 1788

"Sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason." Seinfeld, Jerry

"I see well enough now that I hoped for the impossible – for the laying of what is the most obstinate ghost of man’s creation, of the uneasy doubt arising like a mist, secret and gnawing like a worm, and more chilling than the certitude of death – the doubt of the sovereign power enthroned in a fixed standard of conduct." The narrator, Marlowe, in Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim