“A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.”

“Filling with food,Warming with clothes,Living leisurely without learning,It is little short of animals.”

“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”

“Human-heartedness is man's mind. Righteousness is man's path. How sad that he abandons that path and does not rely on it; that he loses that mind and does not know to seek it. When a man has lost a cock or a dog, he knows to seek it, but having lost his (proper) mind, he does not know to seek it. The Way of Learning is nothing other than seeking the lost mind”

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart”

“Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.”

“That's like climbing a tree to find a fish.”