Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

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.

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

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

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

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