If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?