You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

All the time the joke is that the word "mine" in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either [Satan] or God will say "mine" of each thing that exists, and specially of each man.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.