We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
70 My words are very easy to understand and very easy to put into practice. Yet no one understands them; no one puts them into practice. But some of my teaching could have nature as a source, and also there's a principle-ruled ancestry in some of my words. Yes, [some of] my deeds have a lord; my deeds could have [right] dao as sovereign. Most men don't understand this, they're unable to understand me. Few people understand me, and on this my real value depends. I am highly valued, for few understand me. The wise man wears a coarse cloth on top and carries jade underneath his dress, within his bosom. -- tr. T. Byrn