Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

In Germany, a certain artistic sense is fairly common, but the artist's sense is foreign there.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.