We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.