Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

Do unto others what you want done unto you.