In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

To become a leader, you must first become a human being