I am not an originator but a transmitter.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

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

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.