"The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure..." - Quote by Confucius

“When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.”

“The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.”

“The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.”

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

“I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.”

“Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.”

“Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.”

“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”

“I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared”