For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

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.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.