The worst dog gets the best bone.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.