Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.