Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

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

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

The Goddess of wealth is unsteady, and so is the life breath. The duration of life is uncertain, and the place of habitation is uncertain; but in all this inconsistent world religious merit alone is immovable.