"It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life…"

St. Augustine The City of God (speaking of "evil men")

"it is axiomatic that one cannot have a duty to do something that cannot be done."

George Will in Washington Post August 17, 2003, quoted in Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer The Case for Democracy

"I want to do 'why to' DVDs instead of 'how to’s'. I think that if you understand why, you’re learning how."

Mike Holmes quoted in TV Guide April 4, 2005

"A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn’t feel like it; an amateur is one who can’t when he does feel like it."

James Agate, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Nov. 4, 2005

“Have they [the philosophers] found the cure for our ills? Is it curing man’s presumption to set him up as God’s equal?”

Blaise Pascal Pensées

“the words itched more than they tickled.”

Larry Hill in Maclean’s August 27, 2001

"On his deathbed, Chesterton proclaimed: 'The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness, and everyone must choose his side.'"

Kevin O’Reilly in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #2 (October-November 2001)

"Clever men, it has been remarked, are impressed by their difference from their fellows; wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. It would be ungracious to suggest that such an attitude is a mark rather of cleverness than of wisdom, but it is not wholly free from the spirit of the sect."

R.H. Tawney Equality