The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

Difficulties melt away under tact.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Taste, when once obtained, may be said to be no acquiring faculty, and must remain stationary; but knowledge is of perpetual growth and has infinite demands. Taste, like an artificial canal, winds through a beautiful country, but its borders are confined and its term is limited. Knowledge navigates the ocean, and is perpetually on voyages of discovery.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.