To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.

It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.