Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 4, 1889)
Letters
Source: The Rise & Fall of Society (1959), p. 77
Bishop Stephen Robson’s homily https://www.dunkelddiocese.co.uk/chrism-mass-st-andrews-cathedral-2019/ (17 April 2019)
The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)
Context: The French philosopher Charron was one of the men least demoralised by party spirit, and least blinded by zeal for a cause. In a passage almost literally taken from St. Thomas, he describes our subordination under the law of nature, to which all legislation must conform; and he ascertains it not by the light of revealed religion, but by the voice of universal reason, through which God enlightens the consciences of men. Upon this foundation Grotius drew the lines of real political science. In gathering the materials of International law, he had to go beyond national treaties and denominational interests, for a principle embracing all mankind. The principles of law must stand, he said, even if we suppose that there is no God. By these inaccurate terms he meant that they must be found independently of Revelation. From that time it became possible to make politics a matter of principle and of conscience, so that men and nations differing in all other things could live in peace together, under the sanctions of a common law.
Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
Il n'est pas défendu, en littérature, de ramasser une arme rouillée; l'important est de savoir aiguiser la lame et d'en reforger la poignée à la mesure de sa main.
Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres (Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1888) p. 178; George Burnham Ives (trans.) Thirty Years in Paris (Boston: Little, Brown, 1900) p. 134.
“Behold the life at ease; it drifts,
The sharpened life commands its course.”
Hard Weather, l. 71 (1888).
The Story of Julian http://books.google.com/books?id=Fg81AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Parsons+always+seem+to+be+specially+horrified+about+things+like+sunbathing+and+naked+bodies+They+don%27t+mind+poverty+and+misery+and+cruelty+to+animals+nearly+so+much%22&pg=PA246#v=onepage (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931), p. 246.
Letter to Fatio de Duillier (11 July 1687), quoted in René Dugas, Mechanics in the seventeenth century (1958), p. 440
“In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
