He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
Schooling deprived of religious insights is wretched education.
The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
Nothing is more conservative than conservation
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.
The Left needs causes like fish need water
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction. . . even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.
The state is not competent in artistic matters. . . When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.