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.

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

The vain being is the really solitary being.

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

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

What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.

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