Never seek illicit wealth.

A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman.

The superior man is universally minded and no partisan. The inferior man is a partisan and not universal.

Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.

The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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.