"Be skillful in speech, that you may be strong; [...] it is the strength of [...] the tongue, and words are braver tha…"

"Wretched is he who has bound the land to himself [...]; a fool is he who is greedy when others possess. Life on earth…"

"Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his …"

"More acceptable is the character of the straightforward man than the ox of the wrongdoer. Serve God, that He may do t…"

"Instill the love of you into all the world, for a good character is what is remembered."

"He who lifts up his hand in a threatening manner against a fellow-man, though he may not actually strike him, is desi…"

"In calling his two sons by the names of Gershom and Eliezer, Moses, like Joseph and other righteous men, intended to …"

"Moses, before he left Egypt, succeeded in securing for the Israelites the observance of rest on the Sabbath, by point…"

"There is no place without God's presence. Even in the bush He was present, and this was the lesson of God's omniprese…"

"The matron whom we find so often arguing with Rabbi José observed one day to that sage, 'My god is surely greater tha…"