"Looking back some folks might say I was successful/ That I shook the hands of kings and presidents/ And I surely think they’ll say I did my duty/ And struck a blow for love and common sense."

"Every Place I’ve Ever Been” on the album Guess Things Happen That Way by Cowboy Jack Clement

"Whether one wishes it or not, man is also a historical animal: the place he occupies in time is as important for him as that which he occupies in space…"

Régine Pernoud Those Terrible Middle Ages

"Public thinkers such as politicians and members of the media who comment on them are the first generation of our society to have been badly schooled without being aware of the fact."

"Mad Intelligence” in George William Rutler He Spoke to Us

"Yes-men are good for the ego but not for the soul. They have no effect on your thinking, and you can hardly expect them to impress your opponents."

David Gelernter in National Review March 9, 1998

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody. It saves so much trouble."

Mrs. Mallowe in Rudyard Kipling, "A Second-Rate Woman" in Under the Deodars
 

"We do care far more about all sorts of things and people than is at all rational if this life is all…"

James Fitzjames Stephen, Liberty Equality Fraternity

"A penny saved is a little piece of copper that stays in your pocket for 10 hours."

From a list of maxims in Globe and Mail Nov. 29, 2001 sent by Nicola Gilman’s Grade 3 class at Calgary Montessori School

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

G.K. Chesterton in "On Running After One’s Hat," in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton