The famous aphorisms in the reading room are:

1. A young man who does not know how to study diligently will regret studying late.

2. If you want to gain true knowledge, you must work hard.

3. Diligence can make up for weakness is a good lesson, every minute of hard work equals talent.

4. If you learn without thinking, you will be in vain; if you think without learning, you will be in danger.

5. Learn and then be able to do it, think and then gain.

6. I don’t eat all day long and stay up all night. Thinking is useless and it is not as good as learning.

7. Learn it well, interrogate it, think carefully, argue clearly, and practice it sincerely.

8. The work is accomplished by hard work but not by play, and the success is achieved by thinking and destroyed by casualness.

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

10. Work hard to know all the words in the world, and resolve to read all the books in the world.