Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

A heart set on love will do no wrong.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

An angry person is always full of poison.

A person of character takes as much trouble to discover what is right as the lesser men take to discover what will pay.