...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]