The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Never lose your child's heart.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?