The history of the last century shows as we shall see later that the advice given to governments by bankers like the advice they gave to industrialists was consistently good for bankers but was often disastrous for governments businessmen and the people generally.
One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man I shall be satisfied.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find but symmetrical men never.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.