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
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.
There is no thermometer for wants!
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.