"Without religious convictions, we would be so many Cains…" Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence

"’What about a train ride?’ I’d asked the [Intourist] clerk. ‘Is the Trans-Siberian Railroad any fun?’ She stared at me. ‘It will be long remembered,’ she said." P.J. O’Rourke Eat the Rich

"Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name." Samuel Butler Erewhon

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after." Oliver Goldsmith, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Globe and Mail September 27 2000

"Doubt comes at the window, when inquiry is denied at the door." Benjamin Jowett

"Man must bow down to something." Fyodor Dostoevsky, quoted in Philip Yancey Soul Survivor

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour." Truman Capote, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe & Mail December 14, 2007

"At the non-stop treason trial which is history, Kierkegaard stands convicted of working as an undercover agent for God." Malcolm Muggeridge A Third Testament (1976) in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge.