If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

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.

Future generation is the most important thing.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.