He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

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.

Heaven sees as the people see. Heaven hears as the people hear.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.