Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

To understand yourself is the key to wisdom.

Being strong does not mean that you never fall down, but that whenever you fall, you get up again.

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.