Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you.

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.