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

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.

Better hold the hand for coin, though small, Than lose, for one half a dang, it all.

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.