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

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

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

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

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

"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…"

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