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

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

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

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!

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.