Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle.
The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.
The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.
My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!
Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.
I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.
Graves they say are warm’d by glory; Foolish words and empty story.
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.
In blissful dream, in silent night, There came to me, with magic might, With magic might, my own sweet love, Into my little room above.
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
Atheism is the last word of theism.