The Jewish Wisdom Database

Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure.

The translator is a commentator, and every commentator also adds something of himself towards the deepening of the matter, its explanation and emphasis.

The good translation is, to a certain extent, an artistic work more difficult than the original.

There are words like lofty mountains, and words like yawning gulfs.

There can be no creative national literature without ancient traditions.

Those who have no taste are incurable.

Through legend one may penetrate the Jewish nation's living home and behold its inward parts.

We have books on morality enough and to spare, but so few men of morals.

Sometimes one must translate not the lines themselves but what is written between them.