Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.