The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.