Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
he who will not economize will agonize
The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.