There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

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

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity.