There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.

A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.