Simplicity is always a virtue.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationist.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.