He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Good people strengthen themselves ceaselessly

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.