Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.

Tether even a roasted chicken.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

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.