Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.

Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.