“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”

Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002

“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything.”

Goethe, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2006

“L’intérêt met en oeuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.”

Réflexions morales #253 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes

“You always have to go on that, your instinctive trust or – your lack of trust. In the final analysis, there is really nothing else you can go on.”

Philip K. Dick VALIS

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

Abraham Lincoln, quoted in the American Spectator August 1988

They describe rural New Hampshire churches in March 1968 with spires “pointing the way toward salvation and a God who was, by most current accounts, either dead or hiding out in Argentina. It was going to be a bad year.”

William W. Prochenau & Richard W. Larsen, A Certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson A Political Biography

“A good argument, when conducted properly, takes the time and full attention of two people.”

Erma Bombeck in When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It’s Time To Go Home, quoted in British Columbia Report July 26, 1999

“What if lawyers and economists wrote the sitcoms? Very likely, they would turn out so that they more closely approximated the agony and pain of real life, which is really so frightening that it simply has to be funny.”

An author whose name I did not record in The American Spectator August 1988