I still have my lantern.

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.

Light is more important than the lantern,
The poem more important than the notebook

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.