Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled..

Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own..

Every dogma has its day, but ideals are eternal..

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it..

What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!.

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music..

The Land of Israel needs a People and the People of Israel needs a Land..

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul..

It takes two men to make one brother..

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion..

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera..

Everything changes but change.

New York is the great stone desert..

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition..

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad..

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie..

...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed i….

You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting….

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, tha….

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man..

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation,….