The funniest people are the saddest once

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.