Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

The injury of prodigality leads to this, that he who will not economize will have to agonize.