1. If you don’t know, ask; if you can’t, learn.

2. Work is accomplished by hard work, but wasteful by play; success is achieved by thinking, and destroyed by casualness.

3. Everyone is destined to die. Death may be heavier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.

4. Those who are beneficial to the country will love them, and those who are detrimental to the country will hate them.

5. The vastness of spirit, the vitality of ideals, and the diligence of soul: this is the genius Diderot

6. Worry about the world's worries first, and rejoice after the world's happiness.

7. Every inch of mountains and rivers is worth every inch of gold.

8. How can you get the fragrance of plum blossoms without experiencing a bone-chilling cold?

9. Paint a piece of water in ten days, and paint a stone in five days.

10. A disease in one toe can destroy a body of seven feet; an ant's nest can collapse a thousand-mile embankment.