Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.
When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.