Tether even a roasted chicken.

When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll.

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.

The basic meaning of etiquette is to be quick at both the beginning and end and tranquil in the middle.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.