“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

John Milton, quoted in the introduction to the fence-whitewashing excerpt from Mark Twain Tom Sawyer in William Bennett The Book of Virtues

“You fail to overlook the crucial point.”

Samuel Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #2 Oct.-Nov. 2002

“Common sense, that extinct branch of psychology.”

G.K. Chesterton “The Unpsychological Age” in Alvaro De Silva ed., Brave New Family

“This capacity to be fully engaged in the moment yet simultaneously aware of its historic or cultural context was a special trait…”

Electra Slonimsky Yourke’s “Foreword” in Nicolas Slonimsky Perfect Pitch

“The greatest of all Chesterton’s gifts was his charity, and he carried it to a very high point; for he suffered fools gladly."

Fulton J. Sheed in “G.K. Chesterton,” in Sidelights on the Catholic Revival, quoted by James V. Schall in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (Oct.-Nov. 2003)

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

Harry F. Banks (emailed by a friend)

“Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, ‘I will not hit you if you do not hit me’; there is no trace of such a transaction. There is a trace of both men having said, ‘We must not hit each other in the holy place.’”

G.K. Chesterton Orthodoxy