“And lastly, if, after a day of rest, one should feel energised for recreation of an amorous kind, he or she must heed the cautionary chorus: ‘Never on a Sunday’.”

“7 per cent haz no rest, nor no religion, it works nights, and Sundays, and even wet days.”

“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

“Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.”

“Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and more serious avocations.”

“Now piercèd is her virgin zone;
She feels the foe within it.
She hears a broken amorous groan,
The panting lover's fainting moan,
Just in the happy minute.”

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest.”

“[ A Jew] should make Torah his principal occupation and his work his casual one. He should minimize his business pursuits and occupy himself with Torah. And he should remove fleeting pleasures from his heart, and work each day enough to maintain himself. … The rest of the day and night, he should occupy himself with Torah.”

“One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.”