Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

A river unneeded still finds its way down to the ocean...

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

You could look it up.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.