C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Author Unknown
A Group of Indian Epigrams: Wisdom is Better Than Rubies
Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor
I
Water, and rice, and wisdom’s precious word.
The fool, when asked how many jewels he
May own, of precious stones doth count his hoard.