Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.