Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.