The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.

If Language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant. If what is said is not what is meant, then what ought to be done, remains undone.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.