When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.