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.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

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

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.