Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

Meandering leads to perfection.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

A great country is like the lower outlet of a river. It is the world's meeting ground, the world's female.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.