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

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.