“Our coffee is every bit as fresh and delicious as anything else we sell.”

An ad I saw years ago that could be taken two very different ways.

“Simplicity is not so simple as it looks.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Return of the Gods” in The Resurrection of Rome quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

In my latest National Post column I deplore the growing tendency to classify climate denial as a psychological disorder and offer the Climate Discussion Nexus as a civil alternative to misinformation and insults.

“We live under the shadow of a gigantic question mark. Who are we? Where do we come from? Whither are we bound?”

Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind (the beginning)

“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.”

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci according to izquotes.com/quote/leonardo-da-vinci/he-who-does-not-punish-evil-commands-it-to-be-done-275351

“let them choose rather to be corrected by the wise than to be lauded by the foolish.”

St. Augustine City of God

“An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain.”

Anonymous, quoted as ”Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 28, 2000