“Sing while you fight”
Me on the desirability of being a happy warrior in public policy, both for tactical reasons and because life is both too short and too marvelous an adventure to go around being sour about its difficulties, June 25, 2025
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
Carl Sandburg, quoted in a C2C email teaser June 27, 2025 to an article that did not actually contain that quotation [https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/06/restoring-canada-special-seriespart-vi-the-desperate-need-for-a-baby-bump/].
“Those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the Soul of Boot…”
John Galsworthy regarding a particular bootmaker’s samples in William Bennett The Book of Virtues
“Students of popular science… are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism”
G.K. Chesterton “Art and Religion” reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“A man is drunk when he feels sophisticated and can’t pronounce it.”
Joe Sullivan quoted in “Other Suspects – II Quotes not by GKC” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“We have seen the end of the age of Reason; and that we live in the age of Suggestion. Perhaps for the first time, the degradation of Man has been openly declared; in a theory that he can be persuaded without being convinced.”
G.K. Chesterton in G.K.’s Weekly Nov. 1, 1934, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #2 (Nov./Dec. 2024)
“When Chesterton had been on the London literary scene for only a few years, both the general public and the literary critics started realizing his great versatility… ‘It has been suspected for some time,’ wrote an anonymous critic, ‘that his foible is omniscience.’ (Manchester Courier, Mar. 18, 1905).”
Dale Ahlquist “Tremendous Trifles” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Work while you work,/ Play while you play;/ One thing each time,/ That is the way. All that you do,/ Do with your might;/ Things done by halves/ Are not done right.”
Complete text of “Work while you work” from McGuffey’s Primer, in William Bennett The Book of Virtues