A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

And none will hear the postman’s knock Without a quickening of the heart. For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Genealogies are admirable things, provided they do not encourage the curious delusion that some families are older than others.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.