The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost.

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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.