Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

Some will read only old books, as if there were no valuable truths to be discovered in modern publications: others will only read new books, as if some valuable truths are not among the old. Some will not read a book because they know the author: others . . . would also read the man.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

Never complain and never explain.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.