Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
Rotten wood cannot be carved.
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.
The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.