Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

- Solomon Schechter

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

- Solomon Schechter

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

- Solomon Schechter

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

- Solomon Schechter

In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man ... [T]h…

- Solomon Schechter

Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.

- Solomon Schechter

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

- Solomon Schechter