Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

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.