1. Water drops penetrate rocks, and ropes cut wood.

2. A young man who doesn’t know how to study hard is too early to regret studying.

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

4. Diligence can make up for one's weakness, which is a good lesson. Every minute of hard work equals talent.

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

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

7. I have not eaten all day long, and have not slept all night. It is useless to think, and it is not as good as learning.

8. Learn eruditely, interrogate, think carefully, argue clearly, and practice diligently.

9. Achievements are achieved by hard work and wasteful play; success is achieved by thinking and destroyed by casualness.

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

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