Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

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

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

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.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.