May 5

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

May 6

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

May 7

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

May 8

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

May9

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

May 10

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

May 11

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

May 12

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

May 13

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.