The rich fool is like a pig that is choked by its own fat.

Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.