Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The inner nature of man is the province of Music.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.