Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.