He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

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

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

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

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.

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

So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.