Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.