Now that all your worry has proved such an unlucrative business. Why not find a better job.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon from my heart, like flowers in a garden.