An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.