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.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)

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

Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil...the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.