The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?