"History, alas, has a way of hanging on."

Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World

"Discerning 'right' from 'wrong' in economics is a matter of distinguishing mutualistic from parasitic relationships."

Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripides
 

"Pessimism, you know, is often a form of vanity."

Sandy Arbuthnot in John Buchan The Three Hostages

"to have any meaningful 'self-esteem' one must have a meaningful sense of self. An 'itch and scratch' existence is simply not adequate."

Iain Benson in the Executive Summary to Kathleen M. Gow, "Making a God of Self-esteem: The Tyranny of Misdirected Sentiment," CRPP Discussion Paper 4

"Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight/ But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right"

Hilaire Belloc, "The Pacifist"
 

"If you are still with me at this point, it can only be because you are a serious drinker of being…"

Robert Capon The Supper of the Lamb

"Generally speaking, we do not realize a problem of the past till we realize it as a problem of the present, and even of the future."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Age of Chaucer,” in Chaucer, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #5 (March 2004)