Self-examination is painful.—­Pillar Inscriptions of Asoka.

A man winnows his neighbor’s faults like chaff:  his own he hides, as a cheat the bad die from the gambler.—­Dhammapada.

She orders her household aright, she is hospitable to kinsmen and friends, a chaste wife, a thrifty housekeeper, skilful and diligent in all her duties.—­Sigalovada-sutta.

The wife ... should be cherished by her husband.—­Sigalovada-sutta.

Were I not ready to suffer adversity with my husband as well as to enjoy happiness with him, I should be no true wife.—­Legend of We-than-da-ya.

It is better to die in righteousness than to live in unrighteousness.—­Loweda Sangrahaya.

Better to fling away life than transgress our convictions of duty.—­Ta-chwang-yan-king-lun.

Better for me to die battling (with the temper) than that I should live defeated.—­Padhana-sutta.

The loving Father of all that lives.—­Tsing-tu-wan.

Our loving Father, and Father of all that breathes.—­Daily Manual of the Shaman.

Even so of all things that have ... life, there is not one that (the Buddhist anchorite) passes over; ... he looks upon all with ... deep-felt love.  This, verily, ... is the way to a state of union with God.—­Tevijja-sutta.

    Doubts will exist as long as we live in the world. 
    Yet, pursuing with joy the road of virtue,
    Like the man who observes the rugged path along the precipice, we ought
    Gladly and profitably to follow it.

—­Siau-chi-kwan.

To feed a single good man is infinitely greater in point of merit, than attending to questions about heaven and earth, spirits and demons, such as occupy ordinary men.—­Sutra of Forty-two Sections.

What is goodness?  First and foremost the agreement of the will with the conscience.—­Sutra of Forty-two Sections.

If you remove (from conduct) the purpose of the mind, the bodily act is but as rotten wood.  Wherefore regulate the mind, and the body of itself will go right.—­Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

Keep watch over your hearts.—­Mahaparinibbana-sutta.

Let no evil desire whatever arise within you.—­Cullavagga.

So soon as there springs up within him an angry, malicious thought, some sinful, wrong disposition, ... he puts it away, removes it, destroys it, he makes it not to be.—­Sabbasava-sutta.

With not a thought of selfishness or covetous
desire.—­Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

Covetousness and anger are as the serpent’s
poison.—­Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king.

They who do evil go to hell; they who are righteous go to heaven.—­Dhammapada.

He who, doing what he ought, ... gives pleasure to others, shall find joy in the other world.—­Udanavarga.

The virtuous (when injured) grieve not so much for their own pain as for the loss of happiness incurred by their injurers.—­Jatakamala.