A person should always [take care] not [to] stand in a place of danger, insisting that a miracle will be performed for him. Perhaps a miracle will not be performed for him, and if a miracle is done, it will detract from his merits.

A person should always [be prepared to] sell the beams of his house in order to purchase shoes for his feet.

A person should always be patient like Hillel and not exacting like Shammai.

A person should always engage in Torah and mitzvot before he dies; once he is dead he is idle from Torah and mitzvot and unable to praise G‑d.

A person should always pray not to become ill.

A person should always set his table on Shabbat eve, even if he only needs [to eat the size of] an olive.

A person should always rise early to purchase his Shabbat needs.

Whoever is merciful towards others merits mercy from heaven.

He who could have kept the members of his household, his fellow citizens, or the whole world back from sinning and refrained from doing so is held responsible for their sins, and even if his own life is exemplary and blameless, he gets judged and punished first of all if he has kept himself to himself and not done everything to improve his fellow men.

The education of children must never be interrupted, even to rebuild the Temple.

Some people are chained - gold and silver.

A light for one is a light for a hundred.

What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow: that is the whole Law; all the rest is interpretation.

The Divine Presence comes to rest upon one only through his rejoicing in a mitzvah.

Shame is the greatest pain.

Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.