All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.