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

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

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.

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

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

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.