A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

The chase of gain is rich in hate

Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.