“If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”

“To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?”

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”

“Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

“Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.”

“At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.”