Generousity
April 21, 2007
“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
G. K. Chesterton – A Miscellany of Men
Head in the Sand
February 19, 2007
“The wide world is all about you; you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Ring
Customs and Habits
January 24, 2007
“Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.”
G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, 1-11-1908
Treasure Snatched Away
January 23, 2007
“Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.”
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 – 1973), Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
