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

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

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

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.