"The gentleman seeks to be slow in speech and earnest in action."

"The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills."

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge."

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

"To worship ancestors whom one does not know is to be presumptuous."