Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.