Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

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

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

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.