General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound. ...I look for good results.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Alexander Pope strolled in the city Strict was the glint of pearl and gold sedans.... Ladies leaned out more out of fear than pity For Pope's tight back was rather a goat's than man's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"English! they are barbarians; they don't believe in the great God." I told him, "Excuse me, Sir. We do believe in God, and in Jes...us Christ too." "Um," says he, "and in the Pope?" "No." "And why?" This was a puzzling question in these circumstances.... I thought I would try a method of my own, and very gravely replied, "Because we are too far off." A very new argument against the universal infallibility of the Pope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of pl...acing oneself above him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation.... At bottom some belief in a kind of pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »