Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

When young, beware of fighting; when strong, beware of sex; and when old, beware of possession.

The superior person is calm and composed; the lesser person is continuously worried and distressed.

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.