"La parladura Francesca val mais et [es] plus avinenz a far romanz e pasturellas; mas cella de Lemozin val mais per fa…"

"There is not in the circle of human happiness a cup of honey that has not its drop of gall."

"In our poor human nature, joy and sorrow often manifest themselves by the same symptoms; and a piece of good news wil…"

"In his short tales he is most successful when he indulges in the sentimental; he is less attractive when he gives utt…"

"One of the more controversial aspects of Samuel HaNagid's poetry is the fact that many of them are erotic in nature. …"

"Born during this era of Islamic rule, the famous Golden Age of Spanish Jewry (circa 900-1200) produced such luminarie…"

"The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose."

"Must we invoke some sort of cognitive dissonance to explain how the same man could, with no apparent sense of inconsi…"

""Be glad," she said, "God brought you to fifty years in your world"— but didn't know there's no division between, as …"

"To boast of the help you gave a brother in need is to cancel the good of your deed."