One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.