The naming of cats is a difficult matter

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival