More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.