Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

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 blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

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

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.