Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

- Isaac Mayer Wise

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

- Isaac Mayer Wise

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of yo…

- Isaac Mayer Wise

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an in…

- Isaac Mayer Wise

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph o…

- Isaac Mayer Wise

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

- Isaac Mayer Wise

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization whi…

- Isaac Mayer Wise