“I have only one fault, namely, that I am evil.”

Another “Needhamism” from the then-just-deceased columnist Richard J. Needham, quoted by Malcolm MacLeod of St. John’s in letter to the Globe & Mail July 30, 1996

“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)

“Whosoever is out of patience is out of possession of his mind, body and soul.”

Sir Francis Bacon, quoted in the “Federalist Patriot” No. 04-34 25 August 2004 from federalist.com

“It is quite easy to give people a second nature, if you catch them early enough. There is no belief, however grotesque and even villainous, that cannot be made a part of human nature if it is inculcated in childhood and not contradicted in the child’s hearing.”

George Bernard Shaw Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism (he cites foot-binding, ritual suicide when the king dies and suttee).

In my latest National Post column I say don’t confuse malevolent stupidity with conspiracy.

“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

“there is no real shame in retreating from an impossible situation or in fleeing from an enemy that seems too powerful to attack.”

Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s.

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your fears."

Rudyard Kipling, quoted on www.hound-dog-media.com