It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.