"His tact and firmness and his Catholic faith were of immense service to all in solving many complicated questions of …"

"There was everything in his character of a good, laborious, and devoted bishop. And look upon him in his ordinary lif…"

"I have gloried in my rebel countrymen! Would to God I, too, had been a patriot."

"It was the nature of the thing: No moon outlives its leaving night, No sun its day. And I went on Rich in the loss of…"

"In darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone."

"Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock…"

"Riot in Algeria, in Cyprus, in Alabama; Aged in wrong, the empires are declining, And China gathers, soundlessly, lik…"

"They wear their godhead lightly. They look out from their hill and say, To themselves, "We have nowhere to go but dow…"

"The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach."

"I haven't read one book about A book or memorized one plot. Or found a mind I did not doubt. I learned one date. And …"