What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

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

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.