“The London School of Economics would sponsor mock trials to aid the London hospitals, and Chesterton was invited to participate in a number of these, which always drew a large crowd (and thereby donations). On one occasion, he was pitted against several artists, charging them with constantly changing their standards so that a bewildered public knew not what to admire. Art was represented by Sir William Rothenstein, Eric Gill, and Sir Reginald Blomfield.... Blomfield, a famous architect, after hearing Chesterton’s opening argument, ‘deserted his colleagues and turned King’s Evidence.’”

Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)

“Be proficient in your field as well as in harmony among fellow men.”

Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

“Becoming Catholic does not mean leaving off thinking; it means learning how to think.”

G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution as header quotation on Mercy Hudson’s contribution to their new “My Name is Lazarus” conversion story series in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)

“An Eskimo woman is old at forty. An American woman is not old at forty. In fact, she’s not even forty.”

“An explorer” quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)

Having been called an Optimist in his youth because of his opposition to fashionable youth pessimism “after naturally enjoying the daylight, I came to be troubled with the twilight…. All that there is, in substance, on the other side, is a row of official optimists, boasting of the liberties they have not got, and defending the religion they do not believe.”

G.K. Chesterton somewhere in G.K’s Weekly Vol. 22 (3/10/35 to 12/3/36) quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)

“Marching toward the present decade [from the history of the sexual revolution in the conflicting libertine and feminist versions], women are twice as likely as men to be on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.”

Amanda Hobbs in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)

“Give respect to those who earn it, but not those who do not. There is no point in encouraging fools.”

NFA President David Tomlinson in Point Blank February 1998

“Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I’ve done, I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.”

Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts