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 wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

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

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.