Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.

There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.