"The Way of the ancients was always wide and never narrow. They always concentrated on the profound and never the superficial. Their words were always high-minded and never low... Even if they passed their days in bitter poverty, the customs and achievements they bequeathed still serve as examples after hundreds and thousands of years."
- Sima Guang, born 1019-11-17 in Guāng Prefecture, Song Dynasty (on the land of present day China)