What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.