What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

Wisdom adorneth riches and casteth a shadow over poverty.

Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.