Letters Quotes by I. L. Peretz

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all…

— I. L. Peretz

“No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no…

— I. L. Peretz

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

— I. L. Peretz

Time is change, transformation, evolution.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history…

— I. L. Peretz

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land…

— I. L. Peretz

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

— I. L. Peretz

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

— I. L. Peretz

The worst dog gets the best bone.

— I. L. Peretz

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

— I. L. Peretz

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish…

— I. L. Peretz