"I transmit but do not create. I..." - Quote by Confucius

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.”

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”

“It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife”

“A love of tradition has never weakened a nation.”

“Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.”

“If is a custom,More honor'd in the breach than the observance.”

“Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger.”

“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]”