If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

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

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.