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

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.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

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

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing.