Israel Zangwill

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.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

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

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

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.

Everything changes but change.

It takes two men to make one brother.

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

New York is the great stone desert.

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.

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