Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any
The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.
Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
The man of humanity delights in mountains