Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

[I believe in the] rebuilding of Judea as an independent nation.

I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.