Who said “He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and…”?

“In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part”

“The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.”

“Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.”

“Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.”

“Only Christ could have conceived Christ.”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”

“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”

“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”

“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.”

“All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. And though I seem to have been driven out of my country here as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.”