1. Diligence leads to excellence in work, and playfulness leads to waste.

2. You should study at any time and learn everything; you should concentrate your efforts to know more and know everything.

3. Knowledge is a sweet fruit growing from a bitter root.

4. To know the affairs of the world, you must read the books of the ancients.

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

6. If you don’t accumulate steps, you can’t reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you can’t become a river.

7. If you persevere, the rotten wood will not be broken; if you persevere, the metal and stone can be carved.

8. Raising a question is often more important than solving a problem.

9. Read it a hundred times, and its meaning will become apparent.

10. Read thousands of volumes and write like a master.

11. Like reading is equivalent to changing the lonely hours in life into moments of great enjoyment.

12. If the land is not cultivated, no matter how fertile it is, it will not grow fruit; if a person does not learn, no matter how smart he is, he will not be able to read.

13. Humility makes people progress, and pride makes people fall behind. We should always remember this truth.

14. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent diligence.

15. I like reading, meeting and understanding people. Reading more, getting to know more people, and understanding more people will expand your horizons and make you kinder, purer, or more useful to others.

16. A new book is like a ship, leading us from a narrow place to the vast ocean of life.

17. History makes people wise, poetry makes people intelligent, mathematics makes people precise, philosophy makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and logic makes people eloquent.

18. Time should be allocated precisely so that every year, every month, every day and every hour has its special tasks.

19. Nothing is easier to waste than time, and nothing is more worth cherishing. If there is no time, we will accomplish nothing in the world.

20. All the excellent qualities in me are attributed to books.

21. Success = hard work + correct methods + less empty words.

22. We must not become complacent as soon as we see results. We should restrain ourselves from complacency and criticize our own shortcomings from time to time, just as we have to wash our faces and sweep the floor every day in order to be clean and to remove dust.

23. Money is precious, life is even more precious, and time is the most precious.

24. Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you are willing to squeeze, there is always time.

25. There are three ways to read: heart, eyes, and mouth.