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

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two

I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

The future life is where we will go on helping to bring the universe to perfection, which is God's grand ultimate aim. [The purpose of life] is to help God run the universe. Everyone in that better land will be busy all the time, and the environment will be perfect all the time for doing the work which God assigns to all.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.