The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

It is certain that the Jew, if he desired-or if they were driven to it, as the antisemites seem to wish-could now have the ascendancy, nay, literally the supremacy, over Europe; that they are not working or planning for that end is equally sure... The resourcefulness of the modern Jews, both in mind and soul, is extraordinary.