"Though many a rose in this garden is born No mortal who culls one escapes from the thorn."

"What holds in peace this two-fold world, let this two-fold sentence show Amity to every friend, courtesy to every foe."

"Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate’er the frowning zealots say: Tell them, their…"

"The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound."

"Learn meekness from the shell in ocean’s bed And pearls on one who wounds thy head bestow."

"I have shut my eye like a falcon to all the world Since my (inward) eye is open to thy beauteous countenance."

"What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!"

"'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!""

"It is a crime to seek to raise but self, Before all other men to praise but self, The pupil of the eye a lesson gives…"

"If by the Holy Spirit’s grace the gift again be won The works which the Messias wrought by others may be done."