Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

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 .

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Right is the eternal sun; the world cannot delay its coming.