There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.

There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.