Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.