A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many years becoming a ruby - take care that you do not destroy it in an instant against another stone.

Though someday we may become as eloquent as Sahban, but we might also miss the essence of the Forgiving One.

All human beings are limbs of the same body. God created them from the same essence. If one part of the body suffers pain, then the whole body is affected. If you are indifferent to this pain, you cannot be called a human being.

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy