41 Quotes by Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

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.

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.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.