“pessimism is as likely to mislead a contemporary critic as optimism.”

Author’s 1914 Introduction to Albert Venn Dicey The Law of the Constitution

“Wealth as a whole consists in using things rather than in owning them; it is really the activity - that is, the use - of property that constitutes wealth.”

Aristotle Rhetoric Book I

In my latest National Post column I say the idea of a government cartel to reduce oil production in Alberta is at least as bad as it sounds.

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”

Lao-Tsu in the “Tao Teh King” [sic] quoted in Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power

“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)