Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

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.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.