'God knows how you Protestants can be expected to have any sense of direction,'she said.'It's different with us,I haven't been to mass for years, I've got every mortal sinonmyconscience, but I know when I'mdoing wrong. I'm still a Catholic, it's there, nothing can take it away from me.' 'Of course, duckie,'said Jeremy†'once a Catholic always a Catholic.'

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  TheWrong Set,'Significant Experience'.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'Sailing to Byzantium', stanza 8. Collected in TheTower (1928).