The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

Human nature is disposed to do good.

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

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

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

It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed toward goodness, just as water tends to flow downwards. There is no water but flows downwards, and no man but shows his tendency to be good. Now, by striking water hard, you may splash it higher than your forehead, and by damming it, you may make it go uphill. But, is that the nature of water? It is external force that causes it to do so. Likewise, if a man is made to do what is not good, his nature is being similarly forced.

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