Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.