Do not answer the person whose questions are vile. Do not question a person whose answers are vile.

Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

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.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability

Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow.