When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

Words are the voice of the heart.

True knowledge is when one knows the limitations of one's knowledge.

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

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

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she could no longer see them and that she wasn't like them any more. What they loved in their mother wasn't her body, but whatever it was that made her body live.