And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.