It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

The double meaning has been given to suit people's diverse intelligence. The apparent contradictions are meant to stimulate the learned to deeper study.

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.