In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

- I. L. Peretz

[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 …

- I. L. Peretz

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

- I. L. Peretz

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

- I. L. Peretz

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

- I. L. Peretz

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

- I. L. Peretz

[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, …

- I. L. Peretz

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

- I. L. Peretz

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

- I. L. Peretz