"The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment"

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity"

"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom"

"Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me"

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm"

"Silence does not always mark wisdom"

"In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am"