If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

An angry person is always full of poison.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?