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.

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

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

The surest sign of fitness is success.