The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

One must be something to be able to do something.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.