The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

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.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?