Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

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

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.