The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.