Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.