The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

Skills are called hidden treasure as they save like a mother in a foreign country.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.