At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.