Christ did not enchant men; He demanded that they believe in Him: except on one occasion, the Transfiguration. For a brief while, Peter, James, and John were permitted to see Him in His glory. For that brief while they had no need of faith. The vision vanished, and the memory of it did not prevent them from all forsaking Him when He was arrested, or Peter from denying that he had ever known Him.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.