“Think before you think.”

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, quoted on www.memorablequotations.com

"an open mind is salutary, but one whose hinge is off?"

"H. Smith" [according to my detailed but now sadly incomprehensible note as to its origin]

 "Symbolism and ritual keep things much simpler than they would otherwise be."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 14, 1906, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #3 (Dec. 2002).

“He [police lieutenant Rowcliffe] said he understood my position perfectly, and how about my getting wise to myself and spilling some beans? I was, I told him, fresh out of beans."

Archie Goodwin’s internal monologue in Rex Stout The Silent Speaker

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say cowardice plays a surprisingly large role in our political troubles.

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #7