"[W]e who plague people with words are many nowadays, while those who teach or are taught by actions are very few." St. Maximos the Confessor on blogging
"If we discovered paradise, some real estate [developer] would subdivide it . . . and in a year reproduce Los Angeles." John Senior, The Restoration of Christian Culture
"Holiness rather than peace." Thomas Scott, early influence on John Henry Newman
“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty... It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms... It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.” Fisher Ames
"Reality is simultaneously knowable and unfathomable." Josef Pieper
"To hell with the rich. They make me sick." Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe in The Big Sleep
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” Samuel Adams
“Some of the greatest things ever said have been said in two or three pages.” James Schall, The University Bookman, Number 4, 2002, p. 44
__________
Family commitments have me busier than a bee. That's it for today.
