We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Patience is passion tamed.

We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.