Joseph Crampton

“Self-pity [is] one of the most reprehensible sins of the human heart.”
― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine

“Tradition is a guide to the permanent qualities in society and thought and private life which need to be preserved in one form or another, throughout the process of inevitable change.”
― Russell Kirk, Prospects for Conservatives

“You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“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