The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.
It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.