When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

Does Heaven ever speak? The four seasons come and go, and all creatures thrive and grow. Does Heaven ever speak!

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting.

In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness.

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.