Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.