Omar Khayyam — "Earth’s Secret to a starting Point of Glass Was solved for me; it was the Glass …"

"Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!"

"Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give – and take!"

"While you live, drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return."

"To-day is a king in disguise, and we are his courtiers. To-morrow is a queen, and we are her slaves."

"Look to the Rose that blows about us—'Lo, Laughing,' she says, 'into the World I blow, At once the silken Tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'"