"Be sincere and true to your word,..." - Quote by Confucius

“Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire”

“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.”

“True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.”

“The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.”

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”

“I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.”

“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.”

“The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.”

“A woman's best qualities are harmful if undiluted with prudence.”