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

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

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

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

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

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

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

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

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

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