We are ready to die for an opinion but not for a fact
Should Israel perish, the holocaust will be upon us.
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.