My friend, let's not think of tomorrow, but let's enjoy this fleeting moment of life.

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

I wonder what the vintners buy one half so precious as the stuff they sell.