Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

If there were an honorable way to get rich, I’d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn’t an honorable way, so I just do what I like.