"To serve one's parents is the greatest service. To serve one's prince is a secondary service. To serve one's friends is a still more secondary service."

"If you would rule the world, you must first rule yourself."

"When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme pov…"

"The way of learning is none other than to seek for the lost mind."

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. He who loses his child's heart is a small man."