What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

The world may be known Without leaving the house.

Only those who leisurely approach that which the masses are busy about can be busy about that which the masses take leisurely.

Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the resistant, is a fact known by all, but practiced by few.