Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

If I could uncover what beliefs and values control me, I can literally redesign me.

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

He's a chip o' th' old block.

Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

A moment comes when "other" is no longer other.