When you breathe, you inspire, and when you do not breathe, you expire.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

Have no friends not equal to yourself.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

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

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.