In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.