Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity.

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.