To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.

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

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.