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

I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.