Our Language, Once Homely And Colloquial, Seeks

...the Tourist Venice Is Venice.

It Really Takes A Hero To Live Any Kind Of Spiritual Life Without Religious Belief.

Understanding Is Often A Prelude To Forgiveness, But They Are Not The Same, And We Often Forgive What We Cannot Understand (seeing Nothing Else To Do) And Understand What We Cannot Pardon.

Proscription, Martial Law, The Billeting Of The Rude Troops, The Tax Collector, The Unjust Judge, Anything At All, Is Sweeter Than Responsibility.

Maybe Any Action Becomes Cowardly Once You Stop To Reason About It.