If I do not participate in the sacrifice, it is as if I did not sacrifice at all.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not.

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.