To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word.

If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

When abroad, behaveto everyone as if interviewing an honored guest; in directing the people, act as if you were assisting at a great sacrafice; DO NOT DO TO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD NOT LIKE DONE TO YOURSELF: so there will be no murmuring against you in the country, and none in the family; your public life will arouse no ill-will nor your private life any resentment.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.