Joseph H. Hertz

"Men of all lands and climes are brothers."

"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."

"Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden."

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

"Accept the true from whatever source it come," is sound rabbinic doctrine — even if it be from the pages of a devout Christian expositor or of an iconoclastic Biblical scholar, Jewish or non-Jewish."

"Mans most sacred privilege is freedom of will, the ability to obey or disobey his Maker."

"Not indolence but congenial work is mans Divinely allotted portion."

"Though man comes from the dust, sin is not a part of his nature. Man can overcome sin, and through repentance attain to at-one-ment with his Maker."

"In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman."

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

"Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity."

"The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel — the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude."