We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.