It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

In the image of the lion made He kittens small and curious.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.