"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment."

"The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters."

"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."

"Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises."

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

"An unpopular rule is never long maintained."

"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water."

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."

"I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so."