Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.