Study as though you cannot catch up to it, and as though you fear you are going to lose it.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.