Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

Every end is a beginning...And every beginning is an end.

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

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.