Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.
It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
Journalism has become a sort of competitive screeching: what is trivial but noisy and immediate takes precedence over important matters that develop over time.
It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business. "
We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.