1. When hundreds of rivers reach the sea from the east, when will they return to the west? If a young man does not work hard, the old man will be miserable. (Han Yuefu's "Long Song Xing")

2. To learn a hundred things, one must first be determined. (Zhu Xi)

3. The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold.

4. The pen falls in the storm, and the poem becomes the weeping ghosts and gods. (Du Fu)

5. If you are a pro-fengya master, I will be your master. (Du Fu)

6. Be broad-minded and make reservations, accumulate thickly but only thinly. (Su Shi)

7. Be knowledgeable, interrogate, think carefully, discern clearly, and practice diligently. ("Book of Rites")

8. If you don't climb a high mountain, you don't know how high the sky is; if you don't go to a deep stream, you don't know how thick the earth is. ("Xunzi")

9. If you don't fly, you will reach the sky; if you don't sing, you will become a blockbuster. (Sima Qian)

10. If you don’t worry about others, you don’t know yourself; when you worry, you don’t know others. (Confucius)

11. If you don’t enter the tiger’s den, how can you catch the tiger’s cubs? (Book of the Later Han Dynasty)

12. If there is no blockage or flow, it will not work. (Han Yu)

13. I don’t know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain. (Su Shi)

14. Don’t be afraid of clouds covering your eyes, because you are at the highest level. (Wang Anshi)

15. Without rules, it is impossible to build a square garden. (Mencius)

16. After collecting hundreds of flowers and turning them into honey, it will be sweet to whomever you work hard for. (Luo Yin)

17. A well-stocked warehouse shows etiquette; a well-fed and well-clothed person knows honor and disgrace. ("Guanzi")

18. Eat a pit and gain wisdom. (ancient proverb)

19. A ruler is short, an inch is long. (Qu Yuan)

20. Dying before leaving the army will make the hero burst into tears. (Du Fu)

21. The garden is full of spring scenery and cannot be closed, and a branch of red apricot comes out of the wall. (Ye Shaoweng)

22. A moment of spring night is worth a thousand pieces of gold. (Su Shi)

23. To do good is like ascending, and to do evil is like falling. ("Mandarin")

24. A real man would rather be broken into pieces than destroyed. (Book of the Northern Qi Dynasty)

25. Great uprightness is like bending, great skillfulness is like clumsiness, great debate is like indolence. ("Laozi")

26. I don’t know how old I am when I am young, and wealth and honor are like floating clouds to me. (Du Fu)

27. When you climb a mountain, you will be full of emotions in the mountains, and when you look at the sea, your emotions will overflow in the sea. (Liu Xie)

28. The sun rises in the east and rains in the west. There is no sunshine but there is sunshine. (Liu Yuxi)

29. Read it a hundred times, and its meaning will appear by itself. (Romance of the Three Kingdoms)

30. Read thousands of volumes and write like a god. (Du Fu)

31. The method of reading is to proceed step by step, to read thoroughly and to think carefully. (Zhu Xi)

32. Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. (Liu Yi)

33. Those who do many injustices will surely die. (Zuo Zhuan)

34. Er Cao’s body and name are both destroyed, but the eternal flow of rivers will not be wasted. (Du Fu)

35. Everything will be established if it is foreseen, and it will be ruined if it is not predicted.

("Book of Rites")