Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

At 15 I set my heart on learning; At 30 I firmly took my stand; At 40 I had no delusions; At 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; At 60 my ear was attuned; At 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right.

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.