“Sour grapes make bitter wine.”

Letter from Nancy Sturdevant of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 3, 2004

“To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past; for all judgement is comparative, and of the future nothing can be known.’“

Imlac in Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

In my latest National Post column I say ridiculous warning labels that are all noise and no signal only alert us to a society that is neurotic and litigious.

In my latest National Post column I say leftist parties are losing traction with the public, often sympathetic to them on other issues, because too much of the left unreflectively treats disloyalty to Western civilization as a virtue.

“A serious house on serious earth”

Philip Larkin, a non-believer, in his poem “Church Going”, describing what churches used to be and wondering what will happen if nobody goes any more, quoted by fellow non-believer Robert Fulford in National Post Dec. 24, 2005