This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.