When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

To be in one's own heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness

The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.