Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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.
Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.
those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.