Berthold Auerbach — German Author born on February 28, 1812, died on February 08, 1882

Berthold Auerbach was a German-Jewish poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions... (wikipedia)

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.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.