To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.