Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

life is long between the desire and the spasm.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them.

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.