“One joy dispels a hundred cares.”

“Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.”

“Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.”

“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”

“With coarse grain to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow: I still have joy in the midst of these things”

“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?”

“Omul care nu se gândeste sau nu prevede lucrurile îndepartate are necazuri aproape”