“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue,but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from aconviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundicedeye or an inherent spleen of disposition.”

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove”

“Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him”

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”

“No matter where and when you meet him you feel that he has come from some place-no matter from what place he has come-some country that he has devoured rather than resided in, some secret land that he has been nourished on but cannot inherit, for the Jew seems to be everythere from nowhere.”