At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.