Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.