Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

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

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

[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.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

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