There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.