One who can move mountains start with the little stones.
It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.
Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.