Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.
He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.