History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.
At the still point, there the dance is.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.