Gene Coatney

“this degraded view of custom and courtesy, far from being merely cosmetic, threatens our capacity to sustain culture and forge authentic connections with other people and peoples.16 The loss of courtesy in the older and richer sense of the term signals a growing inability to connect with anyone but our own increasingly limited selves.”
― Jay Richards, The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot

“I know I'll die someday, but I buy books like an immortal.”
― Jeff Strand

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Christianity is not a creed for good men, but for men.”
― G.K. Chesterton, A Short History of England