Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

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.