“To be wronged or robbed is nothing unless you continue to remember it.”

Confucius quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Outside the crucifixion of Jesus, the most famous death scene in all history was the death of Socrates. Ten thousand centuries from now, men will still be reading and cherishing Plato's immortal description of it – one of the most moving and beautiful passages in all literature.”

Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.”

Robert Louis Stevenson quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The man who said, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed,’ put the eulogy quite inadequately and even falsely. The truth is, ‘Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.’”

G.K. Chesterton discussing George Bernard Shaw in Heretics, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #1 (Sept. 2001)

“Attempts must be made to modify the institutions (legal, political, social, economic) with the objective of matching these more closely with the empirical realities of man’s moral limitations.”

James Buchanan What Should Economists Do?

“in a world without God, there is not room enough for a man.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Joyce Little in an interview in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #7 (June 1999)

In my latest National Post column I say John Le Carré’s novels were morally rotten and dangerous in practice.

“We must take human nature as we find it. Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”

George Washington to John Jay August 8, 1786, in W.B. Allen Washington, George. A Collection.