Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

There is danger for the eye in seeing too clearly, danger for the ear in hearing too sharply and danger to the heart from caring too greatly.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Luck implies an absolute absence of any principle.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong.

When you're dreaming, you don't know it's a dream. You might even interpret a dream in your dream - and then wake up and realize it was all a dream. Perhaps a great awakening will reveal this to be a dream as well.