“that valuable if unconsidered thing that is one of the two for which civilization was principally originated, which are warmth and dryness...”

Lord Dunsany Up In The Hills

“Some days are for living. Others are for getting through."

Malcolm Forbes, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com

“When fortune empties her chamberpot on your head, smile – and say ‘we are going to have a summer shower.’”

Sir John A. Macdonald, quoted by Dave Ryan in The Western Standard May 3, 2004

“I shall waste no time reading your book.”

I do not recall the source of this marvellous veiled insult but alas I did not invent it.

‘‘It is a monotonous memory which keeps us in the main from seeing things as splendid as they are.’”

G.K. Chesterton quoted by James V. Schall, SJ in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 # 8 (July-August 1999)

“When the affairs of a country are in a bad way it is useful to remember Oliver Cromwell’s advice to look back to the time when things went well and to try to see what subsequently went wrong. Complete success in such a task is rarely possible, but partial success would clearly repay the effort involved if it helped to unravel something of the tangled story of the rise and decline of great nations.”

Start of Introduction in F.R. Cowell Cicero and the Roman Republic

“The MIT Dictionary of Modern Economics calls opportunity cost ‘perhaps the most fundamental concept in economics.’”

Peter Shawn Taylor in Institute for Marriage and Family Canada Review Fall/Winter 2005

“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend, as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

Alfred North Whitehead, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe & Mail August 21, 2002