There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

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

To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

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

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.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.