"it is only by eternal institutions like hair that we can test passing institutions like empires. If a house is so built as to knock a man's head off when he enters it, it is built wrong.:

G.K. Chesterton What’s Wrong with the World p. 193.

"When walking through your neighbour's melon-patch, don't tie your shoe"

Chinese proverb according to David Crystal in As They Say in Zanzibar quoted in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail December 18, 2006

"Chesterton begins his essay ["The Philosophy of Gratitude"] by recounting a passage from a letter he received in response to one of his essays. The writer wanted to know the meaning of the following sentence that he had read in Chesterton: 'No one can be miserable who has noticed anything worth being miserable about.' Chesterton tells us that he wrote this sentence in 'a wild moment.' But it was still true, whatever its wildness. If I notice that I am miserable, then I must have some sense of what it means to be not miserable. My condition, in other words, is not exclusively locked into misery."

James V. Schall SJ in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 13 # 8 (July-August 2010)

In my latest National Post column I say because Patrick Brown can't clear his name by running for his old job, if he or anyone turns out to have had their career or personal life ruined by false accusations there must be consequences for those responsible.

"As long as your players know, deep down, that you are trying to make them as good as they can be, then you can use just about anything [for motivation]. Even a disappearing act. Once, in 1978, we were losing to Notre Dame at halftime. Here was my halftime speech: 'Gentlemen, it’s one thing to be beaten. It’s another to be embarrassed.' And I walked out. We won, 28-14."

Bo Schembechler and Mitch Albom BO 

"For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtues, it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of making good men successful. They will adopt the easier task of making our successful men good."

G.K. Chesterton, “The Book of Job,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

"Why are expensive cars kept in the drive way and useless junk kept inside the garage?"

One of "Gilbert’s Top Ten Unanswered Questions", in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7

"’The mystery of life is the plainest part of it."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by John Peterson in Gilbert Magazine vol. 10 #7 (6-7/07)