Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.