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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

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

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

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

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.