It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.