When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

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 gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

In language clarity is everything.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

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.

Heaven means to be one with God.