A heart set on love will do no wrong.

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.