Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.

The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine