[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.