Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.