Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.