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.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

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

Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Return good for good; return evil with justice.