“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.”

“I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being”

“If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.”

“None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself.”

“French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.”

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. ”

“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”