Insight: “The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.” —John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Political futures I: “Senator Harris’s purpose on the 2020 ticket is not to convince more black voters to support Democrats but to convince more white voters that they should not support Republicans.” —Kevin Williamson

Political futures II: “[The] UAE-Israel peace deal is shaping up to be a pretty good litmus test of which folks hate Israel so much that they’d prefer greater instability in the Middle East to anything that might benefit the Jewish state.” —American Foreign Policy Council senior vice president Ilan Berman

Observations: “Though temperamentally the president isn’t anything approaching a small-c conservative, his policy aims are well within the centrist tradition. Trump is a largely unideological populist, whose views on trade, spending, the border and foreign policy — and a host of other major issues — are well within the mainstream. By any standard, he is more of a centrist than Kamala Harris. Why isn’t his agenda ever framed that way? Well, because the ‘center’ of American politics will always be wherever the Democratic Party’s nominees happen to stand.” —David Harsanyi

For the record I: “If the left and its enablers want to compare notes, we’ll be happy to do so. A vote for Biden is a vote for anarchy, for the disintegration of law and order, for economic paralysis, for stunning intolerance and for the forfeiture of America as we know it, to the incalculable detriment of Americans, especially the younger generations who may not realize the full import of this would-be voluntary abolition of our liberty.” —David Limbaugh

For the record II: “A Biden-Harris administration would operate in thrall to the Black Lives Matter and antifa radicals currently melting down the streets of America’s leading cities. It would sell out America to its archfoes such as China, Russia and Iran, and it would accelerate the Balkanization and cultural malaise now afflicting every level of our beleaguered social fabric. A vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, in short, is a vote to hasten American decline.” —Josh Hammer

Non compos mentis: “Every single American should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum.” —Joe Biden

Braying jackass: “When they come with $2 trillion … we’ll sit down. … Perhaps you mistook them for someone who gave a damn.” —Nancy Pelosi on “negotiating” the next COVID relief package

Alpha jackass: “Bill Barr is fighting hard. For white folks.” —GQ Magazine’s Julia Ioffe

Lack of self-awareness: “I don’t want to scare people, but I want you to be prepared. I have every reason to believe that Trump is not going to go, you know, silently into the night if he loses.” —Hillary Clinton

And last… “President Trump is Western Civilization’s last chance before the arsonists take power and destroy civil society as we know it.” —Charlie Kirk