I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

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

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

Thought is invisible nature.