Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

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.

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure

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

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.