“All things transient are but a parable.”
“Ack! Parables. I hate parables.”
“The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.”
“Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark.”
“He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.”
“Transient guests are we.”