貪心不知足易招侮辱，不如節(jié)儉而守廉潔之氣。求取功名而冒犯節(jié)義，不如節(jié)儉而成全節(jié)義。巧取豪奪而致積怨，不如節(jié)儉而養(yǎng)心性。放縱自己滿足欲望，不如節(jié)儉而安定性情。
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
In looking for someone to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. But the most important is integrity because if they don't have that, the other two qualities, intelligence and energy, are going to kill you.