The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.