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

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

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.

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.