To pious minds, each verdant leaf displays — Saadi

"If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure."

"Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his own fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance."

"بنی آدم اعضای یک پیکرند که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار دگر عضوها را نماند قرار تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی نشاید که نامت نهند آدمیBani aadam azaa-ye yek peykar-and ke dar aafarin-aš ze yek gowhar-and čo ozvi be dard aavarad ruzgaar degar ozvhaa-raa na-maanad qaraar to k-az mehnat-ē digaraan biqam-i na-šaayad ke naam-at nahand aadami"

"He—in whose nature, is the ugly disposition Sees not the peacock,—only his ugly foot."

"O brothers, Mecca is in front, and robbers in the rear. By proceeding, we escape; and, if we sleep, we die."

"He only has drunk the pure wine of unity who has forgotten, by remembering , all else in both worlds."