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Famous Berthold Auerbach Quotes
“The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.”
“Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.”
“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”
“Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.”
“We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.”
“I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.”
“Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.”
“Imagination is the mightiest despot.”
“He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.”
“Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.”
“We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.”
“The world is the same everywhere.”
“Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?”
“What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.”
“Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.”
“Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.”
“To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.”
“Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.”
“Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.”
“The vain being is the really solitary being.”