"If we don’t discipline ourselves the world will do it for us." William Feather
"'When the cart stops,' said Huai-Jang, the Master of Ma-Tsu, 'do you whip the cart or whip the ox?'" Thomas Merton Zen and the Birds of Appetite
"where there is no temple, there shall be no homes" The chorus in T.S. Eliot The Rock
"The quarterback threw the football like a greasy pork chop past a hungry wolf." An unnamed football announcer quoted by my father December 30, 1994
"the two certainties for which the mind of man tirelessly seeks: a reason to live and a reason to die." "Letter to my children" in Whittaker Chambers Witness
"Unless we can make daybreak and daily bread and the creative secrets of labour interesting in themselves, there will fall on all our civilisation a fatigue which is the one disease from which civilisations do not recover." G. K. Chesterton in The Listener Jan. 21 1934, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #6 (April-May 2007)
"To corrupt family relations is to poison fountains; for the sources of the Commonwealth are within the households, and errors there are irretrievable." Edmund Burke, quoted by Andrea Mrozek in Cardus Comment Summer 2016
"There is only one thing which is generally secure from plagiarism – self-denial." G. K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News September 2, 1911, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2005)