Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.