Reform emerges before the storm.

The haters of others are poor narrators of themselves.

Anti-semitism is the hypertension of the body politic which is hard to cure.

Those who read cards leave out the Joker.

Art always makes demands on those ministers without portfolios.

The poet needs the sea, the way a politician needs a country crowd, and the religious needs a wilderness.

Art,politics and religion thrive on commentary.

The Jews once belonged to Royalty, the Gentiles to loyalty.

Today art is confessional, politics is professional, and religion is
obsessional.

 Suffering spares misunderstanding.

 Art often rescues us, politics sues us and religion may amuse us.

 Those who want to get down to basics eventually do.
  
  An anti semite can never understand a Jewish joke.

  Jewish self-criticism leads to a national higher criticism.

  Art is a poseur, rarely a gentleman.
 
  The sculptor exhibits his own stature.

  To the sanguine there is no such thing as discipline or sin.
 
  To the phlegmatic, life is problematic.

   Choleric persons make good critics and clerics.
 
   Melancholy marks the folly of a poet and philosopher.
 
   The only just thing worth striving for in life is mercy and the only
   merciful thing worth striving for in life is justice.