I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.