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

Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.