It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.

Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears.

Make foes of bowmen if you must,
Never of penmen.

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state