In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

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.

Girl who sit on Judge's lap get honorable discharge.

Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.