Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.

What we do not understand we do not possess.