Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools.