Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!