"Do not consider that which I have written, as if it were a new invention, or a thing which I have discovered of my own accord, for I have only collected what is scattered in the books of the Sages, an…"

"The true worship of God is only possible after the acquisition of knowledge."

"The greatest act of charity is to help a person become self-sufficient."

"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved."

"their [the Turks and the blacks] nature is like the nature of mute animals, and according to my opinion they are not on the level of human beings."