an cries out, "O that youth would return for a day, that I
might relate to it what the roll of years has done to me!"

The hair often becomes white, not from the succession of years, but
from a succession of evils.

Life is a parting shadow and youth a departing guest.

When a young man says he is hungry, believe him; but when he says he is
tired, do not believe him.

DEATH

All life ends in death.

When I see all paths leading men unto death, and no paths leading from
death unto us--no traveller there ever returning--not one of ages past
ever remaining--I see that I also shall assuredly go where they have
gone.

If death be surely inevitable, be not a fool and die a coward's death.

Death is a cup which every man must drink, and the grave a door which
every man must enter.

If we are hastening to death, why all this impatience with the ills of
life?

This life is a sleep, the life to come is a wakening; the intermediate
step between them is death, and our life here is a disturbed dream.

He who dreads the causes of death, they will surely seize him--do what
he will to evade them.

Death, so far as one can see, strikes at random, killing the man whom
he hits, and leaving the man whom he misses to old age and decrepitude.

Death covers all faults.

APPENDIX

WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS?

"Righteousness is not that ye turn your faces [in prayer] to the east
or west; but righteousness is to him who believeth in God and the Last
Day, and Angels, and Revealed Books, and Prophets; who giveth
cheerfully from his substance to kinsmen, orphans, the needy, the
wayfarer, and to them that ask; who freeth the prisoner and the slave;
who offereth prayers at their appointed times, and giveth the ordained
alms; to them who fulfil the covenants to which they have bound
themselves, and who are patient in times of distress, and pain, and
struggle: these are they who are sincere [in religion], and who fear to
do evil (_Koran_ 2, 172)."

This fine passage from the Koran is considered by Moslem commentators
as the most comprehensive statement of the duties of man: "Sound faith,
a good social life, and right culture of the soul" (El-Beidaway).

_Instructions of Ali Ibn-abi Talib, the first Khalif to his son_--"My
son, fear God both secretly and openly; speak the truth, whether you be
calm or angry; be economical, whether you be poor or rich; be just to
friend and foe; be resigned alike in times of adversity and pro