"Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying: The worlds work hath gone to the desire of ours."

"Do not seek morality from the preacher, for he himself is devoid of it."

"Go, tell the pious man to burn his prayer-book; his prayers are but hypocrisy."

"Do not despair, for hope is the lamp of the heart."

"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky."