God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

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.

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

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 men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.