Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

Don't do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

One joy dispels a hundred cares.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.