We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing.

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.