National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science - that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

I am a very thorough person.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music.