When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.