‘Muhammad said O Wabisah! are you come to ask what is goodness and what is badness? Wabisah said Yes I am come for that. Then He joined his fingers and struck them upon Wabisahs breast that is made a sign towards his heart and said Ask the question from thine own heart. This he repeated [...]
‘Where I live if someone gives you a hug its from the heart.’
‘For as he thinketh in his heart so is he.’
‘If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.’
‘Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?’
‘Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.’
‘If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.’
‘Beware what you set your heart upon for it surely shall be yours.’
‘A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.’
‘We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.’