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.

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

I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

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

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

One can repent even of having repented.