He fed his spirit with the bread of books

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.