As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Faith is the summit of the Torah.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

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

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

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

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