The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.

If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.