When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.

Don't make to others what you don't want them to make to you.

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.