Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.

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.

When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.

Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.