The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Mine was not an Enlightened mind, I now was aware: it was a Gothic mind, medieval in its temper and structure. I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful.

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists