the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.