One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.
A knife of the keenest steel requires the whetstone, and the wisest man needs advice.
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in Him again.
He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.