The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.