मनस्वी म्रियते कामं कार्पण्यं न तु गच्छति । — Hitopadesha

"He whose days pass without imparting and enjoying, is like the bellows of a smith: he breathes indeed, but he does not live."

"Let a man mark the quick increase of a white ant’s nest, and suffer no day to pass unfruitful in study, charity, and work."

"Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country. Learning is strength inexhaustible. A man without learning is a beast of the field."

"In disuse, knowledge is poison. In indigestion, food is poison."

"In the sandal-trees are serpents. In the waters are lotuses, but alligators also. In our enjoyments are envious spies. No pleasures are unimpeded."

"The natural disposition is hard to overcome. If you make a dog a king, will he not still gnaw leather (literally, gnaw his shoe-strap)."