To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.

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.

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

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 feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.

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