Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Every right is married to a duty, every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility.

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

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

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

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

The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.