As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.

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

One can repent even of having repented.

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

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.