If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.