"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."

"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."

"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."

"There is death in the pot."