It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground.