"Without an acquaintance with the rules of..." - Quote by Confucius

“The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.”

“I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.”

“No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.”

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”

“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine”

“There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.”

“Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.”

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”