Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.