I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.