"If you would rule the world, you must first rule yourself."

"When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil. It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme pov…"

"When a man has a mind to do good, he is not far from it."

"The superior man does not complain of Heaven, nor grumble against men."

"All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others."