“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
Anne in Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
Blaise Pascal quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.”
Francois, duc de La Rouchefoucauld, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“happiness is an end and pleasure can only be a means.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News April 27, 1912 quoted in “Chesterton’s Mail Bag” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #8 (July-August 2005)
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather that it never had a beginning.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman, quoted in Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child
In my latest National Post column I say efforts to “stimulate” the “economy” with public or private debt when the problem is a lot of people not out creating wealth because COVID-19 has them sick or quarantined shows the foolishness of conventional macroeconomics.
“No God, No Hope - Know God, Know Hope.”
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“I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do.”
G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancée, in which he confesses to being covered in ink after a day’s work, quoted by David W. Fagerberg in First Things March 2000