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.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

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

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things.

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

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?