没有一个社会能够真正繁荣和幸福，其中大多数成员都贫困和痛苦。

"Books are the mirrors that reflect our desires."

"I don't need to be perfect. I just need to be good enough."

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

对圣贤的道理教导别人很容易，自己实践却是不容易的事。对圣贤的道理开始奋斗很容易，但坚持到底却很难。圣贤的道理与实践相结合，行仁政必本与德性。后代则相反，学问与实践不能统一，不修持自己的德性，而只管治理别人。

To live without joy is the privilege of the just.