To know that patience comes first. Know that endurance is simply a puff of smoke.

To know that the path of man comes from justice. Know that the way of men is justice.

To renounce avarice, indolence, and obstinacy. Forget the heart of greed, ease and relying on
others.

To recognise sadness and worry as natural, and to seek the immovable heart. One should regard
both sadness and malice as natural laws, and just gain the enlightenment of an unshakable
heart.

To not stray from the path of loyalty and brotherly love, and to delve always deeper into the
heart of Budō.

In your heart, never leave the ways of loyalty and filial piety, and aspire greatly for the ways of
the pen and the sword.

Written on New Year’s Day in 1891 Toda Shinryuken Masamitsu