Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.