"A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be."

“Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.”

“Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it — nothing superfluous, nothing lacking — a harmony.”

“Judaism stands or falls with its belief in the historic actuality of the revelation at Sinai.”

“Men of all lands and climes are brothers.”

“In contrast with the simplicity and sublimity of Genesis I, we find all ancient cosmogonies, whether it be the Babylonian or the Phœnician, the Greek or the Roman, alike unrelievedly wild, cruel, even foul.”

“To Israel's faithful hosts in the past, as to its loyal sons and daughters of the present, the Siddur has been the gate to communion with their Father in Heaven; and, at the same time, it has been a mighty spiritual bond that unites them to their scattered brethren the world over.”