“for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in William Shakespeare Hamlet

“In general terms I think that morality depends upon religion…”

James Fitzjames Stephen in Liberty Equality Fraternity

’Nothing succeeds like success” - Alexandre Dumas in Ange Pitou 1854

“Nothing succeeds like excess” - Oscar Wilde 1894

“Nothing recedes like success” - Bryan Forbes 1926

“Nothing succeeds like address” - Fran Lebowitz 1978

“those who attach too much importance to immediate victory will abandon any project at the first hint of failure. There is nothing that fails like success.” - G.K. Chesterton in Heretics 1905

All from Gilbert! magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)

“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are 40 men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.”

Alexander Pope, quoted in Globe & Mail January 29, 1997

“The most neglected history is recent history.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Luke Sharp in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2004)