He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

A gentleman does not promote a man on account of what he says; nor does he reject sayings, because the speaker is what he is.

Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.