On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

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

Every woman is the gift of a world to me.

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

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.