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.

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.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Where words cease, there music begins.