Make fair agreements and stick to them

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.

those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.