#standards

Hold fast to those things which seem best to you, as one appointed by God to this post.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself, and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason?

Let whatever appears to you to be best be to you an inviolable law.

The Master avoids excess, extravagance, and complacency.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

To live what you think is good and not what other people think is good is the highest form of courage.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The superior man is easy to serve and difficult to please.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.