A reader:

“Derb—You write: ‘Well, first and foremost, there is the value of keeping a stiff upper lip in all circumstances. The rest are pretty secondary.’ Well put. ‘…but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.’”

[Derb] Hey. I’ll confess, I had to look it up. It’s Matthew 24:13. See? It’s true what they told us back in the old country: God is an Englishman.