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

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

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