Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Every journey starts with a single step.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

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.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.