"The superior man thinks of virtue; the ordinary man thinks of comfort." (Analects, bk. iv., c. xi.)
"What the superior man seeks, is in himself; what the ordinary man seeks, is in others." (Analects, bk. xv., c. xx.)
"The object of the superior man is truth." (Analects, bk. xv., c. xxxi.)
"The superior man is catholic and not partisan; the ordinary man is partisan and not catholic." (Analects, bk. ii., c. xiv.)
" The superior man in the world does not set his mind either for anything or against anything; what is right, he will follow." (Analects, bk. iv., c. x.)
"The superior man has dignified ease without pride; the ordinary man has pride without dignified ease." (Analects, bk. xiii., c. xxvi.)
"The superior man is affable but not adulatory; the ordinary man is adulatory but not affable." (Analects, bk. xiii., c. xxiii.)
"The progress of the superior man is upward, the progress of the ordinary man is downward." (Analects, bk. xiv., c. xxiv.)
"The superior man is distressed by his want of ability; he is not distressed by men's not knowing him." (Analects, bk. xv., c. xviii.)
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do unto others." (Doctrine of the Mean, c. xiii., v. 3.)
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables