“Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.” Malcolm Muggeridge in Ian Hunter, ed., The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge

“the key point about a challenge is that the person being challenged must have faith that he has at least a reasonable chance of mastering it. Otherwise the ‘challenge’ becomes a seemingly impassable barrier.” Raymond Price With Nixon

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a trade-off has to be made, we can at least have the moral courage to face it, instead of kidding ourselves with words. Yet the intelligentsia go around saying things like ‘It’s not a question of either/or,’ and using phrases like ‘win, win.’” Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?

“Always love virtue before you love duty; the reverse method produces dried souls, incapable of joy.” G.K. Chesterton “The School Magazines,” in Res Paulinae, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 10 #6.

“Beyond each corner a number of new directions lie in wait.” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“We – or at least I – shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasions if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest. At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have ‘tasted and seen.’ Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.” C.S. Lewis Letters to Malcolm

“Do not dress words up by adding ly to them, as though putting a hat on a horse.” Wm. Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style