Joseph

“Who should be King save him who makes us free?”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tennyson's Idylls of the King

“Yes, all the newspapers do say the same thing. That's true. But so it is the same thing that all the frogs croak before a storm. One can hear nothing for them.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“So vanish friendships only made in wine.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

“We did not study Talmud. Instead, his father talked of the Jewish world in Europe, of the people he had known who were now probably dead, of the brutality of the world, of his years in Russia with the Cossack bands looting and plundering.

'The world kills us,' he said quietly. 'Ah, how the world kills us.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen