In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.