"Frankly, we don't know whether to run, to watch, or to bark at the moon."

Dan Rather, quoted in "Rather’s Familiar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly March 2005

"To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Andrew Coyne in Maclean’s Jan. 21, 2008

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. But one may forget that hasty intellectual judgments are equally deplorable."

Jacques Barzun From Dawn to Decadence

"Questionless, there is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue, and of this Economics is commonly esteemed not the least part…"

Plutarch’s Lives Vol. I p. 481.

"It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy."

G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #1 (September 2006)

"True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful."

Paul Sweeney, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail December 20, 2004

“Religion may very well be an illusion, as Freud said, but then man himself is that illusion.”

William Barrett The Illusion of Technique

“Pope [a minor-league thug]: 'My superior wants to see you.' Jonathan Hemlock [played by Clint Eastwood]: 'Well, that doesn't limit the field much!'”

The Eiger Sanction, quoted on The Internet Movie Database (imdb.com)