Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

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.

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.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

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.