Rotten wood cannot be carved.
What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.
If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?
If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?
Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come.
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.