I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

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.