We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

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

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

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled