"The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity."

“We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.”

“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”

“To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.”

“Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.364, Open Road Media

“You never know, life is short but it’s wide”

“It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.”

“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”

“Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.”