"Yet, such as you are, God made you; and the supreme prerogative of the divine art is to draw good even from evil."

"If there is objective reality in the poetizing of love, in spite of all its riot of subjectivity, then there seems no reason why the apparent greatness of Shakespeare's poetry should not have something to do with the realities of human existence pressing and constraining his fictions: nor is the question of the reality of the divine constraint on Jeremiah's mind excluded by anything we know."