When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.