Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

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 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

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.