The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.