All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

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.

She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.