Between the vision and the act lies the shadow.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

Past art is subject to change.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.