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

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

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

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

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.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.