If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.