"While others take pride in luxury, I find beauty in simplicity." — Sima Guang
"In the education of a cultivated individual, one training is essential: elegant and refined speech." — Illit, former President of Harvard University
"The general level and nature of students' intellectual life depends largely on the teacher's spiritual cultivation and interests, on their breadth of knowledge and vision, and on what the teacher brings to the students and what they teach. For a teacher, the greatest danger is intellectual emptiness—a lack of spiritual wealth." — Sukhomlinsky
"To jeopardize one's future because of a heartbreak is a lifelong loss." — Huo Hai
"If good habits are moral capital, then, to the same extent, bad habits are unpayable moral debts." — Ushinsky
"To desire little is to purify the mind; to avoid excess is to purify the body; to speak little is to purify the speech." — Yan Yuan
"Civilization is about creating cultivated people." — Ruskin
"Everyone makes mistakes; one should allow room for their correction." — *New Book of Tang*
"A gentleman honors others' virtue and promotes their merits; this is not flattery." — Xunzi
"Virtue is largely contained within good habits." — Palek
"Reciprocity is the essence of propriety; to receive without giving is unseemly, as is giving without receiving." — *Book of Rites*
"A single move in chess is insufficient to judge wisdom." — Liu An