The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.