"I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous." Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton "The Sins of Prince Sardine"

"Civilisation is a precarious balance between barbaric vagueness and trivial order..." W.H. Auden, summarizing A.N. Whitehead, according to Robert Conquest Reflections on a Ravaged Century

"[I]t is the mark of an educated man to look for precision to each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits..." Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

"He can be compelled, who does not know how to die." Seneca

"There are two kinds of people in politics: those who want to be somebody, and those who want to do something." An adage often cited by European Community founder Jean Monnet among others

"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.