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

“America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!”

“Everything changes but change.”

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

“It takes two men to make one brother.”

“New York is the great stone desert.”

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

“No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”

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

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

“The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.”

“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, not repetition.”