In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.