George F. Will

Gifted teachers master the patience required for the unending business of transmitting civilization down the generations, transforming biological facts _ children _ into social artifacts called citizens. It is wearying work and it is a wonder teachers can summon the stamina for it.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

A cardinal tenet of conservatism is that social inertia is _ and ought to be _ strong. It discourages and, if necessary, defeats the political grandiosity of those who would attempt to engineer the future by rupturing connections with the past.

From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.