It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

Whatever heaven ordains is best.

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.