Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
Human nature is disposed to do good.
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
The man of true greatness never loses his child's 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.