Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark..

A heap of bricks is not yet a house..

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better..

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds ….

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak..

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it..

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins..

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby..

Time is change, transformation, evolution..

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool..

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, ….

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to ….

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business..

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen..

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, th….

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox..

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!.

The worst dog gets the best bone..

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth..

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanita….

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty..