Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid