Who, then, is right? How can we all be right? Half of our wise men declare that the world is going straight to perdition; the other half that it is f… - Henry Adams

Life is a narrow valley, and the roads run close together

Even theologians — even the great theologians of the thirteenth century,— even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself — did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Even in prose, the greatest writers have not often succeeded in stating simply and clearly the fact that Infinity can make itself finite or that Space can make itself bounds or that Eternity can generate time. In verse, Adam did it as easily as though he were writing any other miracle.