“Indifference to one’s own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one’s own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.”

The Land of Israel will be small, but the people of Israel will make it great. Not in opulence, but in eminence will their destiny be fulfilled, and the elixir of their pride will be distilled not out of dominion or far-flung borders.

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.