There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

You would attain to the divine perfection.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Let us be merciful as well as just.