When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own parents and children as well as the parents and children of others. The old are cared for, adults have jobs, children are nourished and educated. There is a means of support for all those who are disabled or find themselves alone in the world. Everyone has an appropriate role to play in the family and society. Devotion to public duty leaves no place for idleness. Scheming for ill gain is unknown. Sharing displaces selfishness and materialism.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

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

If you don't know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.