We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

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

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?