Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

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.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.