The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.