The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

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

To love a thing means wanting it to live.