Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone is divine.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

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.