Israel Zangwill

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

"The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition. "

"The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it. "

"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries... "