Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.