The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

There is a thread in our thoughts as there is a pulse in our feelings; he who can hold the one knows how to think, and he who can move the other knows how to feel.

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.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Life is too short to be little.

The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish.

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