Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
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.
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.