I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.