When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.
To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.
The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.
No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.