"We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity." Otto von Bismarck, quoted by Arnold Beichman in National Review January 28, 2002
"the unwelcome mat…" Expression used in an editorial in Globe and Mail July 28, 1999
"Who are you that you should not believe in fairy tales?" G.K. Chesterton, quoted by John Peterson story in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 12 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2009)
"History is made up of juggernauts, revolting to human feeling in their blindness, supremely humorous in their stupidity." Historian of Parliament Lewis Namier, quoted in Norman Davies The Isles
"When you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." – LORD KELVIN/ "Yes, and when you can express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." – JACOB VINER Exchange quoted in Robert Higgs Crisis and Leviathan
"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the Devil can throw at a man." William Hazlitt
"Nothing succeeds so well as success." Tallyrand
"As G.K. Chesterton said, what makes religions different is not what their garb and customs are like, but what they hold to be true." James V. Schall S.J. in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 20 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2016)