A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

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.

The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

Respect the gods and the devils but keep them at a distance

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.