Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

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

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.