A stranger's rose is but a thorn..

[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….

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

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

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

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

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

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 ….

The worst dog gets the best bone..

Time is change, transformation, evolution..

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

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..

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!.

[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, ….

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins..

[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 ….

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

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction..

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