“I wish someone would explain to me why it isn’t necessary to show probable cause of fraud and get a warrant in order to audit a taxpayer.”

J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” April 17, 2023 [https://undergroundthomist.org/antipasto]

“Long ago he had heard of an old Chinese saying to the effect that a man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.”

Louis L’Amour Flint

“It is in disaster, not success, that the heroes and the bums really get sorted out.”

James Bond Stockdale in Chronicles magazine July 1988

“SIGNING CONTRACTS WITH DEMONIC FORCES has every characteristic of the dream of the satanist. So why would it be taken as a topic for artistic and religious inspiration? A casual glace to the academic and artistic institutions throughout the world gives evidence that the world has taken seriously the call to give their souls, or at least their art, to the Devil.”

Patrick Gill “How the Devil Loses a Deal” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)

“I was always taught to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder to find one.”

Emailed by a friend July 1, 2023 with no further attribution; it is found in many places online and I do not know who invented it.

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”

Herman Hesse, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” without further attribution in Epoch Times email teaser August 9, 2023

After Condé was killed in battle in March 1569 “leadership of the Huguenot movement devolved on Coligny… under Coligny’s direction, the movement weathered the storm, and acquired a new unity and cohesion. This nearly great man – symbolized for contemporaries by the inseparable toothpick…”

J.H. Elliott Europe Divided 1559-1598

“the fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools”

King Crimson “Epitaph” from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)