"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"France has more need of me than I have need of France."

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

"An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood."

"Lack is more in means than in principles."

"Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all,” said the Baal Shem."

"Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come."

"The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may"

"Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor."

"The Jewish contribution to the idea of love is the conception of love of the Sabbath, the love of a day, of spirit in the form of time."

"The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization."

"Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude."

"The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man.” God is not in things of space, but in moments of time."

"The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know."

"This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible."

"Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work."

"The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin."

"Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man."

"Awe precedes faith."

"Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism."

"There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of the Sabbath."

"Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man."