Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

The person of benevolence never worries.

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.