Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

Surprise is the secret of joy.