Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far, / Don John of Austria is going to the war.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.