Berthold Auerbach
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Collection: Life
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Years teach us more than books.Collection: Inspirational
If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Collection: Dust
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.Collection: Art
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.Collection: Fear
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.Collection: Love Yourself
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Nature
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.Collection: Inspirational
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.Collection: Character
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.Collection: Hatred
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.Collection: Gratitude
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.Collection: Belief
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.Collection: Grief
Imagination is the mightiest despot.Collection: Imagination
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.Collection: Men
The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.Collection: Mean
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. These four words hold sway everywhere.Collection: Lying
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.Collection: Healing
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.Collection: Needs
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.Collection: Men
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?Collection: Work
What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.Collection: Knowledge
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.Collection: Weather
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 disaster is not clear to us.Collection: Feet
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.Collection: Truth
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Selfish
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 into the other.Collection: Eye
With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.Collection: Hands
Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.Collection: Anger
The world is the same everywhere.Collection: Work
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.Collection: Bed
The vain being is the really solitary being.Collection: Vanity
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.Collection: Eye
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.Collection: Liberty