Bookish Chap
@Bookish1842
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Lawyer, Author, Bibliophile. Family, Church, Country. Gratitude, Patriotism, Order, Preservation.
“It is better to remain calm; try to remember that all epochs have had to suffer assaults on common sense and common decency, arts and letters, honor and wit, courage and order, good manners...even if sworn enemies of these abstractions…seem unduly numerous in today’s society.”
“It is significant of much that in the seventeenth century members of Parliament quoted from the Bible; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from the classics; in the twentieth century from nothing at all.” G.M. Trevelyan, 16th February 1876 – 21st July 1962
"For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution." Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn July 14th, Rue Daunou [1910] by Childe Hassam #BastilleDay
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Gustav Mahler, born 7th July 1860
God, Country, Notre Dame 🇺🇸 ☘️ Happy #IndependenceDay!
4th of July Nationalism 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 American, remember who you are
4th of July Nationalism 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 Philadelphia Patriotic Scene (1917) by Frank Godwin
“The importance of reading, not slight stuff to get through the time, but the best that has been written, forces itself upon me more and more every year I live.” —Matthew Arnold
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” — Cicero
“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.” William F. Buckley Jr.
“We need a rebirth of gratitude for those who have cared for us, living and, mostly, dead. The high moments of our way of life are their gifts to us. We must remember them in our thoughts and in our prayers; and in our deeds.” William F. Buckley, Jr.