"If a man is not good, what..." - Quote by Confucius

“he who will not economize will agonize”

“Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.”

“If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.”

“The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.”

“To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education . . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.”

“Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.”

“Of two evils, choose neither.”

“Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.”

“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”