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

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.

"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.

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.