The Way is hidden and nameless. Still only the Way nourishes and completes.

A good speaker does not stutter.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

Heaven's Way is like stretching a bow. The high is lowered and the low is raised. Excess is reduced and deficiency is replenished. Heaven's Way reduces excess and replenishes deficiency. People's Way is not so. They reduce the deficient and supply the excessive.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.