What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
There is no protection against slander.
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
Reason is not what decides love.
When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No. " "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.
What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
Motion is tranquility.
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?