The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

Longing performs all things

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.