Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt

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