Human nature is disposed to do good.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

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

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.

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

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