If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

The cautious seldom err.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

All men are born good.

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.