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.

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 tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

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