One who has accumulated virtue will certainly also possess eloquence; but he who has eloquence doe not necessarily possess virtue.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The cautious seldom err.

In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?