Abraham Cahan

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

What is wealth? A dream of fools.

If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.