Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

To make people laugh was almost a sickness with me.

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.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

A cantor, when he starts singing, it's like rain - once it starts, it's hard to stop.