Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
The man of humanity delights in mountains
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
A blemish may be removed from a diamond by careful polishing, but evil words once spoken cannot be effaced.