The Seder nights… tie me with the centuries before me. – Ludwig Frank (1874–1914), Aufsätze, Reden und Briefe, ausgewählt und ein

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? – Aẖad HaÊ¿am, 1902

Take particular care of your books…. When you lend a book to any one, make a memorandum of it before it leaves your house, and when it is returned cancel the entry. Every Passover and Tabernacles call in all your books that are out on loan. – Judah Ibn Tibbon, advice to son, quoted by Israel Abrahams, Jewish Life in the M

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness. – Moses Ibn Ezra