"The Mughals were Chaghta'i Turks and we know that, unlike them, the other Turkic rulers outside of Iran, such as the Ottomans in Turkey and the Uzbeks in Central Asia, were not so enthusiastic about Persian. Indeed, in India also, Persian did not appear to hold such dominance at the courts of the early Mughals."

"To begin with, is Persian a language of equal rank with the Indian, derived from a common ancestor, or is it merely an Indian dialect? Seven centuries of linguistic development, scriptless and therefore very rapid, lie between the Old Vedic of the Indian texts and the Behistun Inscription of Darius. It is almost as great a gap as that between the Latin of Tacitus and the French of the Strassburg Oath of 842."

"Ezzat-e har kas be-dast-e ân kas ast."

"He is cutting off his nose to spite his face."

"Kuh be kuh nemi-rasad; âdam be âdam mi-rasad."

"Az in guš mi-girad, az ân guš dar mi-konad."

"Sokuni be-dast ar ey by sabât, ke bar sang-e ġaltân na-ruyad nabât."

"Tarre be toxm-aŝ mi-ravad Ḥasani be bâbâ-š."

"Silence is the best answer to the stupid."

"Dust ân bâšad ke girad dast-e dust dar parišân hâli o darmândegi."