Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Her eye Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise Flash'd an expression more of pride than ire, And love than either; and there would arise, A something in them which was not desire, But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, Which struggled through and chansten'd down the whole.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Our country, however bounded.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

I am a part of all that I have met.

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself

The Swallow, the Serpent, and the Court of Justice A swallow, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others' rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.

He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.