Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.