Analects of Confucius 14.41

Tsze-lu happening to pass the night in Shih- man, the gatekeeper said to him, ‘Whom do you come from?’ Tsze-lu said, ‘From Mr. K’ung.’ ‘It is he,— is it not?’— said the other, ‘who knows the impracticable nature of the times and yet will be doing in them.’