ithdrawn in this manner
are seven in number."

Tsz-lu, having lodged overnight in Shih-mun, was accosted by the
gate-keeper in the morning. "Where from?" he asked. "From Confucius,"
Tsz-lu responded. "That is the man," said he, "who knows things are
not up to the mark, and is making some ado about them, is it not?"

When the Master was in Wei, he was once pounding on the musical stone,
when a man with a basket of straw crossed his threshold, and
exclaimed, "Ah, there is a heart that feels! Aye, drub the stone!"
After which he added, "How vulgar! how he hammers away on one
note!--and no one knows him, and he gives up, and all is over!

'Be it deep, our skirts we'll raise to the waist,
--Or shallow, then up to the knee.'"

"What determination!" said the Master. "Yet it was not hard to do."

Tsz-chang once said to him, "In the 'Book of the Annals' it is stated
that while Kau-tsung was in the Mourning Shed he spent the three years
without speaking. What is meant by that?"

"Why must you name Kau-tsung?" said the Master. "It was so with all
other ancient sovereigns: when one of them died, the heads of every
department agreed between themselves that they should give ear for
three years to the Prime Minister."

"When their betters love the Rules, then the folk are easy tools," was
a saying of the Master.

Tsz-lu having asked what made a "superior man," he answered,
"Self-culture, with a view to becoming seriously-minded."

"Nothing more than that?" said he.

"Self-culture with a view to the greater satisfaction of others,"
added the Master.

"That, and yet no more?"

"Self-culture with a view to the greater satisfaction of all the clans
and classes," he again added. "Self-culture for the sake of all--a
result that, that would almost put Yau and Shun into the shade!"

To Yuen Jang,[31] who was sitting waiting for him in a squatting
(disrespectful) posture, the Master delivered himself as follows: "The
man who in his youth could show no humility or subordination, who in
his prime misses his opportunity, and who when old age comes upon him
will not die--that man is a miscreant." And he tapped him on the shin
with his staff.

Some one asked about his attendant--a youth from the village of
Kiueh--whether he was one who improved. He replied, "I note that he
seats himself in the places reserved for his betters, and that when he
is walking he keeps abreast with his seniors. He is not one of those
who care fo