All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced.