Quotes

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

Life is an incurable disease.

Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.