The advantage of a bad memory is that one can enjoy the same good things for the first time several times.

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.

Often a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.

A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.