"The Master said, 'A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has made no name for himself, then…"

"The gentleman is calm and at ease; the small man is fretful and ill at ease."

"The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

"When the wind blows, the grass bends."

"What the gentleman wants is in himself, what the small man wants is in others."