If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

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

A grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.