"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."

"The earth is a tavern, and we are all drunkards. Some are drunk with wine, others with ambition, still others with love."

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

"The religious hypocrite, in his prayer, thinks of nothing but his own reputation."

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