Alan Cornett

“Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.”
― Russell Kirk

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.”
― Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History

“She thought for the first time, with happiness: perhaps I have a life in people's minds when I am not there to be seen or talked to.”
― Graham Greene, Orient Express