Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.