If you want to change the world, first change your heart.

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.

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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