Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.