Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.
One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.