The Master said, To foster right among the people; to honour ghosts and spirits, and yet keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom. He asked, What is love? The Master said, To rank the effort above the prize may be called love. 21. The Master said, Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. 22. The Master said, By one revolution Ch'i might grow to be Lu; by one revolution Lu might reach the Way. 23. The Master said, A drinking horn that is no horn! What a horn! What a drinking horn! 24. Tsai Wo[61] said, If a man of love were told that a man is in a well, would he go in after him? [Footnote 60: A disciple.] [Footnote 61: A disciple.] The Master said, Why should he? A gentleman might be got to the well, but not trapped into it, He may be cheated, but not fooled. 25. The Master said, By breadth of reading and the ties of courtesy, a gentleman is kept, too, from false paths. 26. The Master saw Nan-tzu.[62] Tzu-lu was displeased. The Master took an oath, saying, If I have done wrong, may Heaven forsake me, may Heaven forsake me! 27. The Master said, The highest minds cleave to the Centre, the Common. They have long been rare among the people. 28. Tzu-kung said, To treat the people with bounty and help the many, how were that? Could it be called love? The Master said, What has this to do with love? Must it not be holiness? Yao and Shun[63] still yearned for this. Seeking a foothold for self, love finds a foothold for others; seeking light for itself, it enlightens others too. To learn from the near at hand may be called the clue to love. [Footnote 62: The dissolute wife of Duke Ling of Wei.] [Footnote 63: Two emperors of the golden age.] BOOK VII 1. The Master said, A teller and not a maker, one that trusts and loves the past; I might liken myself to our old P'eng.[64] 2. The Master said, To think things over in silence, to learn and be always hungry, to teach and never weary; is any of these mine? 3. The Master said, Not making the most of my mind, want of thoroughness in learning, failure to do the right when told it, lack of strength to overcome faults; these are my sorrows. 4. In his free moments the Master was easy and cheerful. 5. The Master said, How deep is my decay! It is long since I saw the Duke of Chou[65] in a dream. 6. The Master said, Keep thy will on the Way, lean on mind, rest in love, move in art. 7. The Master said, From the man that paid in dried meat upwards, I have withheld teaching from no one. 8. The Master said, Only to those fumbling do I open, only for those stammering do I find the word. [Footnote 64: We should be glad to know more of old P'eng, but nothing is known of him.]