To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect.

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know.

When frying small fish, disturb them little.