Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.