The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied

Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.