To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old..

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world..

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening int….

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work..

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil..

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art..

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself..

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions..

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled..

The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gi….

Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found..

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent..

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother..

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations..

The world is the same everywhere..

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy..

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt..

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disas….

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important..

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent..

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds.….