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.

He who crosses the ocean twice without washing is a dirty double crosser.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have