When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects