Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others the more he benefits himself The more he gives to others the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
If money help a man to do good to others it is of some value but if not it is simply a mass of evil and the sooner it is got rid of the better.
A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others including his enemies and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.