Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

One can repent even of having repented.