Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one leads them with virtue, they will come up to expectations.

Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are not sincere and untrustworthy in your speech, frivolous and careless in your actions, how will you get along even among your own neighbors? When stand, see these principles in front of you; in your carriage see them on the yoke. Then you may be sure to get along.

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.