We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.