People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.