Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

those who understands is not better than those who appreciates, those who appreciates is not better than those who enjoys.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.