It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.