To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.