Joseph Crampton

“Politics is the preoccupation of the quarter-educated,” George Gissing wrote near the end of the nineteenth century. To that aphorism we may add, near the end of the twentieth century, “Democracy is the preoccupation of the half-aware.” What our age desperately requires is not more mediocrity, but more elevation of spirit, awareness of the eternal source of truth. That failing, order and freedom and justice fall into ruin.”
― Russell Kirk, The Politics of Prudence

“God created Man in His image," says the Scripture: "and," adds Heine, "Man made haste to return the compliment.”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poetry

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
― Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)

“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils