Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

The Secular City, having legislated and litigated itself out of any entanglement with the City of God, would be a hell upon earth .

Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.