Reviewing the day's lessons. Isn't it joyful? Friends come from far. Isn't it delightful? One has never been angry at other's misunderstanding. Isn't he a respectable man?

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established

To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?