If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.