He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.