"As I strolled in the Yelu Academy [a school founded by Zhu in Hunan], I saw the shadows of many of the educators who taught in that school flit by. And the one I saw most clearly was that of Zhu Xi, despite the fact that he had been gone from that place for 800 years."
「我在嶽麓書院漫步的時候，恍惚間能看到許多書院教育家飄逸的身影，而看得最清楚的則是朱熹，儘管他離開書院已有八百年。」