If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.