Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Love is a taste of paradise.

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.

Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it.