Did you know that forty percent of the words used by Shakespeare were used by him only once?

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.