Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.