However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, t…

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our …

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

We live in a divine world.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

- Samson Raphael Hirsch