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

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.

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

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

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 willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.