The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

A picture is poem without words.

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.