The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

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

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.