He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great.