A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

The years keep coming and going, Men will arise & depart; Only one thing is immortal: The love that is in my heart.

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

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

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

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.