Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or jacob:
“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 4:7.
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)