| Well, Confucius said this: a scholar must be stout-hearted and persevering, because our burden is heavy and our journey is long. |
| Rather, Confucius considered himself a transmitter who consciously tried to reanimate the old in order to attain the new. |
| Wallace saw Chinese religion as monotheistically organized around the figure of Confucius. |
| Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials. |
| Confucius had shown his students the beauties of honouring their Father and their Mother. |
| Rulers, in his view, should be subject to higher laws, devised by the ancient sages Confucius and Mencius and administered by learned mandarins. |
