The elephant's footprint

The venerable [disciple] Sariputta said this: "Friends, just as the footprint of any living being that walks can be placed within an elephant's footprint, and so the elephant's footprint is declared the chief of them because of its great size; so too, all wholesome states can be included in the Four Noble Truths."

--Mahahhatthipadopama Sutta, Middle Length Discourses, trans. by Bhikkhu Bodhi