heard from their alms-bowls and o

--such, that the former did not take occasion to magnify that virtue in himself, and that the latter, in his positive practice of philanthropy, did not, at times, allow in his presence something savoring of misanthropy. "Say you, is there
any one who is able for one whole day to apply the energy of his mind to this virtue? Well, I have not seen any one whose energy was not equal to it. It may be there are such, but I have never met with them. "The faults of individuals are peculiar to their particular class and surroundings; and it is
by observing
thei r faults that one comes to understand the condition of their good feelings towards their fellows.

"One may hear the right way in the morning, and at evening die. "The scholar who is intent upon learning
the right way, and who is yet ashamed of poor attire and poor food, is not worthy of being discoursed with. "The masterly man's attitude
to the world is not exclusively this or that: whatsoever is right,
to that he will be a party. "The masterly man has an eye to virtue,

the common man, to earthly things; the former has an eye
to penalties for error--the latter, to favor. "Where there is habitual going after gain, there is much ill-will. "When there is ability

in a ruler to govern a country
by adhering to the Rules of Propriety, and by
kindly condescension, what is wanted more? Where the ability to govern thus
is wanting, what has such a ruler to do with the Rules of Propriety? "One should not be greatly concerned at not being in office; but rather about the requirements in one's self for such a standing. Neither should one be so much concerned at being