The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.