1. If there is a will, things will come true. If the cauldron sinks the boat, a hundred and two Qin passes will eventually belong to Chu; if people work hard, God will not let them down; if they lie down and taste their courage, three thousand Yue Jia can devour Wu.

This is an inspirational couplet written by Pu Songling himself when he failed the imperial examinations many times in his later period and was in extreme despair.

2. Where there is a will, there is a way

From Fan Ye's "The Book of the Later Han: The Biography of Geng Yan": "The general was in Nanyang when he established this great strategy. He often thought that it was difficult to get along. Everything will work out."