A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

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.

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.