In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality.

I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.