Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

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)

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established