A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.

Whatever heaven ordains is best.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.