There, where one burns books... one, in the end, burns men.

Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.