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At the CrytoPunks Meetup.

"THE CRUCIFIXION

    And the centurion who stood by said:
    Truly this was a son of God.

Not long ago but everywhere I go
  There is a hill and a black windy sky.
Portent of hill, sky, day's eclipse I know:
  Hill, sky, the shuddering darkness, these am I.

The dying at His right hand, at His left
  I am—the thief redeemed and the lost thief;
I am the careless folk; I those bereft,
  The Well-Belov'd, the women bowed in grief.

The gathering Presence that in terror cried,
  In earth's shock, in the Temple's veil rent through,
I; and a watcher, ignorant, curious-eyed,
  I the centurion who heard and knew."

--Adelaide Crapsey

"It is clear that people's desire to be a good subject is much more prevalent than to be a subject that does good."

"Albus cunctorum quondam captator bonorum
Orbis in excidio minus ambitione laborat?"
('Albus, grasping eagerly all the honors of the state, is he any less ambitious in this universal catastrophe?') --St Paulinus of Beziers, 'Claudii Marii Victoris [sic] de perversis suae aetatis moribus' in: Early Christian Latin Poets, Otto Kuhnmuench (1929)

" 'There’s nothing else out there for them to read,' he told Publishers Weekly, about Lord of the Rings fans. 'They just have to reread their Tolkien'."