Li Qunyu

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman – repose in energy.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.