To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.

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