“Every time a man puts a new idea across, he finds 10 men who thought of it before he did – but they only thought of it.”
“Anonymous” quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 8 2001.
“Father once mused that his ecumenical motto would be ‘Come home to the Catholic Church! It’s terrible here.’”
Dale Ahlquist reviewing Father Joseph Fessio, S.J.: California Blackrobe by Cornelius Michael Buckley, S.J., in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #3 (Jan./Feb. 2025)
“Man arrested, accused of trespassing naked in Disneyland”
Headline in San Bernardino Sun April 14, 2025 [which offers the comfort that someone’s always having a worse day than you are but also the caution that no matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.]
“The BBC reports that the North Hertfordshire Museum will now refer to Roman emperor Elagabalus with the female pronounces of she and her.”
Mark Pilon in “News with Views” “Compiled by Mark Pilon” in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025)
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also are like unto him.” “Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.”
Proverbs XXVI:4 and 5 [King James Version]
“it isn’t oratory that is wanted in this racket. The William Jennings Bryan stunt languishes in wartime.”
John Blenkiron in John Buchan Greenmantle
“At one time, I was arrogant enough to believe I had an intellectual conversion to the Catholic faith. But, fundamentally, it was because God loves me, as he loves us all, and gave me the grace to convert. I only cooperated in his grace from time to time.”
Jeff Miller in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
“Such, in brief, is the Platonic doctrine of Forms or Ideas, but this summary can give no impression of the depths and riches of Plato’s thought and in particular takes no account of another and a very important aspect in which an emotional, one had almost said a mystical, value is found in the striving of the human soul towards an attainment of the perfection seen in the Form, such as that of Beauty.”
David Knowles The Evolution of Medieval Thought [and by no means his only use of the surely peak-pomposity phrase “one had almost said”]