"All men are born good...." - Quote by Confucius

“If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.”

“The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.” (Analects 4.16)”

“From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.”

“I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.”

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

“It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change.”

“Virtue alone is sweet society,It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,And opens you a welcome in them all.”

“I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.”

“The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.”