The (real) treasure is that laid up ... through charity and piety, temperance and self-control.... The treasure thus hid is secure, and passes not away. Though he leave the fleeting riches of the world, this a man carries with him--a treasure that no wrong of others, and no thief, can steal.--Nidhikanda-sutta. Think of all sentient beings as thy children.--Tenets of the Soto Sect. Though exalted, forget not the lowly.--Jitsu-go-kiyo. Be kind to all that lives.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. Filled with compassion for all creatures.--Saddharma-pundarika. Of all possessions, contentedness is the best by far.--Nagarjuna's "Friendly Epistle." A contented mind is always joyful.--Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king. Let us then live happily, though we call nothing our own.--Dhammapada. Not the whole world, ... the ocean-girt earth, With all the seas and the hills that girdle it, Would I wish to possess with shame added thereto. --Questions of King Milinda. Let none be forgetful of his own duty for the sake of another's.--Dhammapada. The faults of others are easily seen; one's own faults are difficult to see.--Udanavarga. 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.