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.

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.

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 .

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

The art of loving is not how many you touch, it is the heart of one that shows a masterpiece of your deepest design.~Bluenscottish

God’s house will be happy because Christ will be there.

They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.

Boxing is sort of an inevitability. We know they are going to be pounding each other.

The Internet is only the street corner meeting on a big scale

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.