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.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.