And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.