Who said “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and…”?

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

“There is no original truth, only original error.”

“I love fools experiments. I am always making them.”

“He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.”

“There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.”

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.”

“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”

“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.”

“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”