A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

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.

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.