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

And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared man.

Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly forgotten the nature of humility. Submission to the dictates of humility formerly was made palatable to man by the doctrine of grace; that elaborate doctrine has been overwhelmed by modern presumption.

Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.

Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

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

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