I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

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

Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.