Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.