Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light.

Turning popular opinion upside down does not make an original.

This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

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.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.