"He's human all right. He's got to be. No other critter on earth would make such a fool of himself."

Bull Harris (about Sherrif J.P. Harrah) in El Dorado

“Possunt quia posse videntur” [“They can who think they can” or “They can because they believe they can.”]

Virgil, quoted by Francis Bacon The Advancement of Learning

“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: If you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.”

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Simplicity is not so simple as it looks.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Return of the Gods” in The Resurrection of Rome quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

“We live under the shadow of a gigantic question mark. Who are we? Where do we come from? Whither are we bound?”

Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind (the beginning)

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci according to izquotes.com/quote/leonardo-da-vinci/he-who-does-not-punish-evil-commands-it-to-be-done-275351

“let them choose rather to be corrected by the wise than to be lauded by the foolish.”

St. Augustine City of God

“An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain.”

Anonymous, quoted as ”Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 28, 2000