Moral Precepts are precepts of perfection.

You can't wait for others to arrange your life; what you want, you must strive for yourself.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and it won't be a nice one.

仅仅做好事是不够的；必须以正确的方式去做。

To talk about painting is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too.

译文：一个家族的衰败没落，多半是因为子孙们的骄傲懒惰所致；社会风气的败坏，多是因为富贵者的奢华淫靡所致。赏析：一个家族要想兴旺发达，必然有良好的家风传承，子孙门的骄奢淫逸只会让家族走向没落。