If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.