The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.