Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

One truly understands only what one can create.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

Political Science carries inseparably with it the study of piety, and that he who is not pious cannot be truly wise.

Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak.

Understanding arises through making

Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.

Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.

me ... no me .. gone is gone, and i'm gone .. alone is alone .. it's so bad to feel alone, but i'm alone .. me, no more .. no more exist, but i don't exist, not anymore ! Good morning

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

I love trains. It's the only way to travel anymore where it doesn't involve a TSA agent slowly tracing the curve of my inner thigh.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react.

Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.