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.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.

If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.