If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.