We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Hurry up, please, its time.

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.