"Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth." The Coming of the Ship, pg. 3.

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:

"Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." On Marriage, pg. 15.

"Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

"For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable." On Children, pg. 18.

"The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.

"They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish." On Giving, pg. 21.

"Work is love made visible.

"And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste...