The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.