Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.
Learn what you are and be such.
Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well.
The noblest of the elements is water
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.