Carl L. Lokke, “Charles Downer Hazen”, Vermont History, July 1958
The French Revolution has been frequently ascribed to the influence of the “philosophers” or writers of the 18C. This is putting the cart before the horse. The manifold ills from which the nation suffered only too palpably were the primary cause of the demand for a cure. —Hazen, Modern Europe, pp. 105–106
“You can’t go back.” twitter.com/LeoTheLes…
No bankruptcy, no increase of taxation, no more borrowing. —Turgot to King Louis XVI, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 117
My God is greater than your idol.
Came upon this. Don’t know about its accuracy.
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You don’t have to believe in hell to go there.
Maybe I am envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheistic joke, which I of all people could have perpetrated: “God’s only excuse is that He does not exist”. —Nietzsche
I and the Father are one. Sc. 62, John 10:30
I’ve overthrown the world. Sc. 82, John 16:33
This happens in each one’s mind and heart who believes in Christ.
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Instead of “the Sacrament of Love”, say “God”.
At the moment of adoration, we are all equal, kneeling before the Sacrament of Love. — Benedict XVI
Dear Leo:
A Cleveland would be a good president today, don’t you think?
Henry [F. Graff, 2007]
Charles L. Barzun, Where is the Law? A Dialogue
Historic judicial decisions come from “outside the law.”
No citizen of your realm is sure of not seeing his liberty sacrificed to private spite, the spirit of revenge: for no one is so great as to be safe from the hatred of a minister, so little as to be unworthy of that of a clerk. —Malesherbes to Louis XVI, quoted in Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 105
I took only one course with Barzun, and I’m quite sure that my views on poets and novelists were formed before we met. If they hadn’t been, Barzun would never have bothered with me. He didn’t want acolytes; he wanted people with whom he could discuss books. —Arthur Krystal
Two New Books by Arthur Krystal
Arthur Krystal, A Word or Two Before I Go
“These eleven essays and one evocative story range in subject matter from the depredations of aging and the anomalies of cultural appropriation to the friendship between Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling and the day Muhammad Ali punched Krystal in the face.”
Arthur Krystal, Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald