Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

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.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .