I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.